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Brianna Oas has never drawn an easy breath. When she was a baby, her tiny chest convulsed at the slightest irritation. Instead of laughing, she would cough; instead of crying, gag. She succumbed to an endless string of , respiratory infections -- pneumonia, a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia again -- that ordinary antibiotics seemed powerless to curb. Diagnosed with a "failure to thrive," Brianna weighed less at one year than she did at six months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laying Siege to A Deadly Gene | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...black leotards unbecoming of a forty-year-old woman throughout the play. Suddenly, she switches to the personality of a three year old girl in something she refers to as "regression." Attempting to show how her mother was once hard to hug, she clasps a huge wire to her chest. Most of the play seems intended only for those who have been through therapy...

Author: By Sucharita Mulpuru, | Title: Maalox Moment: | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...Anatomy. The woman's thigh and throat and the man's bare chest are commonly featured. These three sensual body parts come together in The Bent Knee Pose...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...over the years it can leak into the surrounding breast tissue. In some cases, especially in poorer-quality implants manufactured between 1975 and 1985, the sacs rupture, spilling their contents into the body. The immune system's attempt to wall off this foreign chemical can cause inflammation and severe chest pain. Worse, the silicone can migrate to the lungs, liver and lymph nodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Strike Against Silicone | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...bullet to his head as he hung a Christmas garland on the door of his Brooklyn home. Another wiseguy, a 79-year-old bookie, was blown away in broad daylight while playing cards at a social club; his 47-year-old girlfriend managed to walk away with a small chest wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: A Gang That Still Can't Shoot Straight | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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