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...getting just a little overskewered? Or that McInerney's characters, while capable of surprising themselves and one another, never surprise us? Or that we wish they were more worthy objects of our readerly sympathy ("I've facilitated the movement of capital around the globe like a bee mindlessly carrying pollen," laments an investment banker--poor little bee!)? Or maybe there's something monstrously asymmetrical about watching the wistful ripples that a cataclysmic act of terrorism sends through the placid, witty lives of the wealthy...
ASTHMA A good joke can be as dangerous as dust or pollen for asthma sufferers. In a new study conducted at New York University, more than 50% of asthma patients reported having an asthma attack after laughing too hard. Flour also emerged as an asthma risk factor. British researchers studying supermarket bakeries found that roughly 15% of the workers developed work-related asthma symptoms, including sneezing, wheezing and difficulty breathing...
According to researchers at the American Thoracic Society meeting last week, a good joke may bring on asthma symptoms as effectively as tree pollen or exhaust fumes. In a study of 235 asthmatics, laughter induced symptoms like coughing and chest tightness in 56%. How much laughter is too much? For some patients, a giggle was as dangerous as a guffaw...
Mention killer bees and almost anyone will smile, recalling the long-running skit on TV's Saturday Night Live in which actors donned striped bee costumes and snarled, "We're the killer bees! Give us your pollen or your wife...
...most common mistakes was to buy a mattress cover to protect against dust mites for a child whose asthma was exacerbated instead by plant pollen. Many of those parents then neglected to do what would have helped a lot more: shut the windows to keep pollen out. Another was using a humidifier for a child who was allergic to dust mites; a humidifier tends to be a place where dust mites like to breed. With those allergies, a dehumidifier works better...