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...best way to stop this vicious circle is to quit smoking. "If people stop smoking early on," says Petty, "their lung function actually goes up and stays up for five years." That's a lot easier said than done, considering how addictive tobacco is--and it's not an option for the 15% of COPD victims who don't smoke. But even for nonsmokers, it's important to identify the disease as early as possible as that's when drugs are most effective. And because people with COPD are especially prone to lung infection, they need to be vigilant about...
...games industry is overwhelmingly dominated by men, which creates something of a vicious circle. If men keep creating games for themselves--if there's no game equivalent of a date movie or a chick flick--how are women ever going to break in? The notable exception is the all-time best-selling computer game--The Sims--built by a design team dominated by women. Lucy Bradshaw was part of that team; now she's executive producer on this fall's hotly anticipated sequel, Sims 2. Colleagues at Maxis call her the Sofia Coppola of the industry--hip, young and iconic...
...deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants [and] tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the Tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary?the Fillette Lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory as their male counterparts...
...describing the potential top dog and his pack in the most canine of terms, and their dogged use of canine imagery reduces politicians’ personalities to the one-word descriptions that package them neatly for voters: They’re sometimes trustworthy, sometimes loyal, sometimes frisky and sometimes vicious...
...goal judge and referee Scott Hansen—didn’t see Pettit’s laser sail over Danis’s glove and pop out, quicker than you could say, “Albany.” Serves Pettit right, you might say, for possessing a vicious slapshot that can be unseeable, unstoppable or both...