Word: schechter
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Another reason South Africa has not been covered heavily in the last few years may be a scarcity of Black reporters and correspondents, said Danny Schechter, the producer of the PBS weekly show South Africa...
...ever go to bed before 1 a.m., so 11 p.m. doesn't seem like an appropriate time to turn down the heat," said Thayer resident Daniele M. Schechter...
...Schechter has since seen two other teen-agers with dangerously inflamed lungs apparently related to kreteks. Like Cislaw, one of the victims had been suffering from a virus at the time that he smoked the cigarettes. Both eventually recovered...
Guidotti, working with Schechter, suspects that eugenol--or some byproduct created when it is burned--immobilizes infection-fighting cells, allowing viruses and bacteria already present in the lungs to run amuck. The other possibilities, he says, are that eugenol or another ingredient has a direct toxic effect or that it triggers an acute allergic reaction. Last month the American Lung Association issued a preliminary warning about clove cigarettes, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to look for further evidence of kretek-induced illness...
...Schechter thinks the CDC will find a rash of cases. Since the Los Angeles Times carried a story about Cislaw, Schechter's office has been flooded with hundreds of calls from clove smokers complaining of shortness of breath, nosebleeds, nausea, lung infections and asthma. "About 30% to 35% said they were coughing up blood," he says. "Emergency rooms haven't seen a symptom like that since TB was in style...