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Black lung, a condition that develops after years of breathing coal dust, gradually robs the lungs of their ability to absorb oxygen. In advanced cases, patients are tethered to breathing machines that they carry around with leather straps or on caddies. When some patients travel out of town, they must...
One question at a time. Prairyerth is an old geological term for prairie soil. The westerly thinning-out of forest and the first broad stretches of prairie grass are what make Chase County a magical place for the author. Eastern travelers feel edgy here, Trogdon notices, and so do some...
Lungs indeed, the winded reader reflects. But this very good writer can blow softly too, and listen well, and march simple sentences usefully across a flat place. This is not new information to those who read his 1983 best seller, Blue Highways, a marvelously quirky account of a 13,000...
As a science writer, I have to commend the coalition for this attempt to introduce physics into the national discourse, which surely needs an intellectual lift, but there are problems. Big cars are safer only for the people who happen to be riding in them at the time, much the...
He added that Waite had been seriously ill. "He had a very bad problem with his lungs -- asthma," said McCarthy. "They did take him to a doctor and gave him medicine for that, and now I hope that he will be okay until he is released."