Word: lungingly
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...investigating a potential link between lung cancer and the chemicals released in the air when making a bag of popcorn, will announce that it’s probably not such a good idea to eat the imitation butter flavoring either...
...decision from the FDA on its colon-cancer drug, Avastin, which targets one of the growth factors released by the body as inflammation gives way to healing. Millennium Pharmaceuticals is testing a different kind of drug, called Velcade, which has already been approved for treating multiple myeloma, against lung cancer and other malignancies. But there is a sense that much more basic research into the nature of inflammation needs to be done before scientists understand how best to limit the damage in chronic diseases...
...past few years, Karan has been through significant personal transitions; in 2001 her husband and business partner Stephen Weiss died of lung cancer. She gives yoga much credit for keeping her balanced, and in the past few seasons, she has drawn praise--rather than confused broadsides--for her collections. There are fewer asymmetrically hemmed skirts, more form-fitting and flattering basic pieces in her signature neutral palette. For fall 2003, she showed a group of white dresses, one a goddess-style evening gown in silk jersey patterned after the dress she made for herself the night before her daughter...
...Boonmanuj, 6, is installed in the front room of his family's farmhouse in western Thailand. A framed photo shows Kaptan in his school uniform; nearby, someone has parked his little bicycle. Kaptan fell ill a few days after the New Year with a mysterious fever that developed into lung complications. "Mum," he told his mother, "my chest feels like it is going to explode." When he died last week, Kaptan became Thailand's first confirmed victim of avian influenza, the latest scourge to emerge from Asia. Inside the Boonmanuj household, relatives burn incense and quietly weep. Outside, chickens scratch...
DIED. ANN MILLER, 81, leggy movie star who tapped up a storm in such MGM musicals as Easter Parade, On the Town and Kiss Me Kate; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. As a girl in Houston, Miller danced to support her mother. In Hollywood she was a highenergy, if less than first-rank, musical star. On Broadway she got a chance to take center stage in her 50s, co-starring with Mickey Rooney in the 1979 musical Sugar Babies, which ran for nearly three years...