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--At altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can...
TAKE A PUFF OF TOBACCO, AND A BLAST OF 4,000 CHEMICALS fills your lungs, blood and brain. The smoke delivers a strong hit--about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks...
For BEN WATT of Everything but the Girl, the winningly unprepossessing British duo whose single Missing is nudging Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in the singles charts, success is fun but not essential. "It's thrilling to have a pop hit," says Watt. "But I'd got used to our...
The VA's medical system, which claims a backlog of $870 million in unmet needs for equipment and $800 million in deferred maintenance and repairs, will lay off 5,000 to 10,000 employees next year, and not all of them will be bureaucrats. As it is, the care-giving...
Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not...