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...study's findings come as no shock, says Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. The symptoms of wheezing and shortness of breath, which frequently get confused for asthma, may signal a host of other health problems, including the a respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, anxiety and congestive heart failure. In fact, congestive heart failure is so often misdiagnosed as asthma that lung experts often refer to it as "cardiac asthma," Edelman says. "All that wheezes is not asthma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Is Asthma Overdiagnosed? | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...telling its uplifting tale, Billy Elliot does an amazing job of not pandering. Billy's road to self-discovery is hard fought, and it comes at a painful price. His father, once over the shock and the shame of learning his boy's ambitions, crosses the picket line to earn money for Billy's audition. Issues of sexuality and gender-stereotyping are faced head-on but not pressed. He's no "poof," Billy insists, but that doesn't stop him from a joyful number in which he dons women's dresses with his (less poof-averse) friend Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billy Elliot: A London Musical Hit on Broadway | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...last year is a harbinger of things to come, it will be Housman bearing the brunt of it. Over the course of the 2007-08 season, Amaker sat his point guard from the starting lineup seven times. After a string of standout performances his sophomore year, it was a shock not to see him on the floor.“I’m known to be pretty hard on my guards or point guards, and I’m sure he can attest to that from a year ago,” Amaker says...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Picking up the Pieces | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...around Fort Tejon - a mountainside Army base - in 1857. As severe as the quake was, the state was so sparsely populated at the time that only two people died. The Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding areas - San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz - took a 6.5-magnitude shock on Oct. 8, 1865. Mark Twain witnessed the event and wrote about it in his memoir, Roughing It: "[T]he ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by a violent joggling up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together. Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Big One' | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Having suffered a dozen lethal terror attacks this year, Indians have almost stopped reacting to terror incidents with shock and horror. But recent news of the arrest of 10 people linked with two relatively small terror attacks earlier this year has created a national furor, and is likely to skew political parties' calculations ahead of next year's general elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Terror Arrests Shock Nation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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