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...study of 36,000 cancer deaths in Massachusetts over a three-year period found that construction workers and automobile repairmen--who often work near asbestos--had an unusually high rate of lung and other asbestos-related cancers...
After an earlier investigation by an outside ad hoc Med School committee concluded that Darsee had falsified data on at least three occasions, two investigations commenced one by Braunwald and the director of the laboratory, Dr. Robert A Kloner, and one by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Panel (NHLBI...
...20th century was born in the trenches of World War I and Robert Graves attended, with bloody hands and a shell splinter whistling through his lung. He described the "goddawfulness" in Good-bye to All That (1929), an autobiography that survives rereading with its old pleasures and astonishments intact. There was, for example, the official report that Graves had died of wounds when, in fact, he was recovering. Remarked Siegfried Sassoon, a greatly relieved comrade-in-arms and fellow poet: "Silly old devil... he always manages to do things differently from other people...
DIED. Arturo Umberto Illia, 82, courtly, honest and respected President of Argentina from 1963 until his ouster in a 1966 military coup; of lung disease; in Cordoba City, Argentina. A country doctor by profession, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1948 and dared openly to oppose the dictatorship of Juan Perón. On this national reputation, he was elected President, but his ineffectual administration could not reverse the country's economic slide or prevent the inevitable takeover by disgusted officers...
...tobacco's health hazards, can at least turn to safer "low tar" cigarettes. Instead of defiantly boasting "I'd rather fight than switch," health-conscious smokes can mumble, "Well, I guess I'd rather switch than wait to see which gets me first--the cardiovascular disease or the lung cancer." But low tar cigarettes cost firms like Philip Morris much more to produce than the high-tar variety. As a result, the tobacco sold abroad contains much higher tar levels than domestic cigarettes...