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...shots really are worth the fuss and bother. A three-year study of people ages 45 and older who live in the Canadian province of Manitoba found that without the vaccine, the number of hospital admissions for influenza and pneumonia would have been 40% higher...
...strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults to die of lung cancer each year. The study also blamed proximity to smoking for hundreds of thousands of cases of childhood respiratory illnesses, such as bronchitis, pneumonia and asthma...
...page memo, but he resisted the idea, warning colleagues that too many details were leaking. In what some took as divine intervention, a flu epidemic swept through the task force in late spring, temporarily sidelining dozens of ! participants. Even Magaziner, who was bearing up better than most, caught walking pneumonia. Late one night, while toiling over financing provisions so arcane that even he found them confusing, Magaziner quipped, "Next time, I'm voting for Perot...
...lost all of these childhood heroes while we were in college. By the time they succumbed to illnesses--cancer, galloping pneumonia, AIDS and old age--we were supposedly too old to enjoy the products of their imagination...
...Sylvester Stallone. For most of Cliffhanger he runs around in a T shirt atop a mountain range in the snow. The absence of parka and mittens is, of course, dictated by the desire to show off his huge, ever straining biceps. Still, you hate to see a guy risking pneumonia for his art, so it's a relief when, a couple of shots after he has fought a subsidiary bad guy in an icy tarn, his shirt is shown to be miraculously...