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...curable, it's largely preventable. Although genes play a role in the disease, about 85% of all cases in the U.S. are triggered by smoking. When cells are exposed to toxic substances for prolonged periods, they tend to become inflamed and swollen. In COPD, cells lining the lungs swell to a point at which they restrict the flow of air. "It's like a sunburn of the air passages," says Dr. Thomas Petty, a pulmonologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and at Chicago's Rush University. Swelling and inflammation trigger bronchiospasm, a clenching...
...Class of 2004 began as a swell of 10, but gradually, injuries, pre-med aspirations, theses and burn-out took their tolls, thinning the senior ranks. Rachel Goldberg and co-captains Kara Brotemarkle and Sara Williamson were all that remained of the players of their graduating year until Montijo—who had been a catcher until starting in the outfield this season—rejoined the team...
...string. Jerry works part time at a travel agency, but just to keep busy. His handsome son runs the family business; his lovely daughter is getting married. For kicks he takes his little three-seater Cessna up to fly around in circles over suburban Long Island. Life is swell...
...Drucker ’07, who lives in Greenough, said she recognized that the swell of first-year diners could make for an “unpleasant environment...
...lingering exam-period swell didn’t prevent the No. 12 Harvard women’s tennis team from facing down the challenges of a rising Tide, as the Crimson comfortably upended No. 30 Alabama 6-1 in its first matchup of the spring season...