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DIED. Shawn Stephens Lewis, 25, Detroit secretary who last June became the fifth wife of renegade rockabilly Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 47; of pulmonary edema, a condition that causes the lungs to fill with fluid and is sometimes related to a drug overdose; in Nesbit, Miss. The tempestuous, controversial Lewis...
Not all the sickness was psychosomatic. Kafka succumbed to tuberculosis in 1924 at the age of 40. But he regarded even real disease with paranoid suspicion: "My brain and my lungs must have conspired in secret." He believed in "only one illness, and medicine hunts it blindly like a beast...
Heckler's opinion, which is shared by many medical detectives, is rooted in a century of victories over diseases whose ravages once shaped the course of history. Only a few decades ago, fear of a polio outbreak could empty schools; victims in iron lungs would be put on exhibit in...
For Rogers, winning is the ultimate justification for the hours put in at training. The usually reserved oarsman is known to finish the last 10 meters of important races yelling at the top of his lungs in his enthusiasm to finish first.
Atlanta Journalist Roger Witherspoon and his wife Cynthia lost their first child, a daughter, in childbirth. A year and a half later, when Cynthia prematurely went into labor with their son Dax after only 22 weeks of pregnancy, the obstetrician warned them that the infant's lungs had almost...