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James W. Henry, 78, of Clarendon, Arkansas, is sure he found a miracle. For 30 years, the retired postmaster suffered from emphysema caused by smoking. Even though he gave up cigarettes in 1962, Henry's condition kept getting worse. The emphysema had created so many permanent blisters in his lungs...
Getting there, though, will force explorers to cope with an environment just as perilous as outer space. Unaided, humans can't dive much more than 10 ft. down--less than one three-thousandth of the way to the very bottom--before increasing pressure starts to build up painfully on the...
At first the coroner could not tell what killed Krissy Taylor, the 17-year-old model who died mysteriously in her Florida home four weeks ago. Krissy's lungs appeared to be normal. Her heart seemed fine. There was no sign of alcohol, cocaine, amphetamines or other drugs in her...
There's one problem with this familiar version of how our distant ancestors emerged from the sea: it's probably wrong. For one thing, newly assembled fossils -- in particular, a 360 million-year-old salamander-like aquatic animal called Acanthostega -- strongly suggest that toes and feet were developed before life...
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who would be the oldest president ever to assume the office if elected next year, has launched a pre-emptive strike on younger rivals who just can't resist sniping at his age. The GOP frontrunner's campaign has released a medical report that says...