... by air pollution, occupational exposure to irritants (such as firemen, possibly a viral infection (9) and there is a rare heredity form of Emphysema caused by a protein deficiency (14) called alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (AAT) (8). Most always cigarette smoking is combined in these cases. Between 80 & 90% of all people who have emphysema are heavy smokers (17). It is estimated 50,000 to 100,000 ... Americans today live with this deficiency (15). AAT is referred to sometimes as early-onset Emphysema because it may begin as early of the ages of late 20's early 30's (15). There can be no...

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... % e. To send and receive e-mail 68% f. To talk in chat rooms or with friends 54% g. To play games 82% h. To get health or medical information 17% Q: Do you use a computer aat home to get the following types of health Information, or not? A: a. Information about diseases 65% b. Information about doctors, hospitals or how to find a clinic 22% c. Information about diet, exercise, or ... ...

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... building. "Follow me," he instructed. The kids were led down a long steel corridor and entered several rooms before a comfy-looking office came into view. They sat on a couch. Dr. Loe looked at them, then said, "We are going to quiz you now, privately. A personality test is all. Xander, you're ... extending his fingers and pointing one of them at it. "How dare you run over my feet!" Leo raised an eyebrow. Xander blushed. "Oops, hehe." He sat back down. Jay stopped fidgeting and stood still. "Guys, do you hear that?" he asked. "Hear what?" the others all asked together. "That...rustling s...

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... school, the air force, and everything else together which was comforting, but sometimes they wondered how things would be if the other just wasn't there. They sat and stared out the window. The ocean was black and seemed endlessly deep and far. Close to the dark horizon the moon was white and a quarter ... she could feel slight turbulence below her feet that interrupted her day dreaming of all the parties from her past. "Probably the wind- she thought, as she sat back in her seat she handed Erin the beer. "Thanks." Said Erin with a grin. "The winds really starting to kick up huh?" Erin ...

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... and squeezed my way out all the twisted metal. I looked around and noticed the driver was missing his head, and the passenger his lower body. The man that sat next to me however, looked as if he was still breathing. I pulled him out of the car, and just waited for him to wake up. Soon he ... around the corner. I shot a few, then realized it was hopeless, and just ran in the nearest door. I then moved a book shelf in front of the door and sat down at a desk. I looked around and saw nothing. No other doors, no windows, no escape. With only two shots left, there was no way of getting past th...

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... brim with rich, dark coffee. Amy curled her fingers around the warm walls of her mug and sipped at it sparingly as she told Toby about her dream. She sat in a daze, reliving the whole experience. She couldn't remember a time when she had been so scared. Toby's presence helped her to stay strong, comforting her ... while's Toby's hand crept to the lamp beside the bed. "I love you." he whispered into her ear as he climbed in-between the covers. II Amy sat dreamily in the bath tub, letting the steaming water ripple around her body, coaxing her to sleep. She looked down at her stomach and pat...

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... , filled to the brim. Vivian curled her fingers around the warm walls of her mug and sipped at it sparingly as she told Jake about her dream. She sat in a daze, reliving the whole experience; she couldn't remember a time when she had been so scared. Jake's being there helped her to stay strong; he ... Jake's hand crept it's way to the lamp beside the bed. "I love you." he whispered into her ear as he climbed in-between the covers. Vivian sat in dreamily in the bath tub, letting the steaming water ripple around her body, coaxing her to sleep. She looked down at her stomach and patted it g...

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... a snake." I got up off the couch and when I looked at him he really started looking like a snake. I got scared and ran back in the bedroom. I sat on the floor with Amanda for a while, and then Jesse came slithering in. I got all freaked out, but then he was eventually able to convince me that he wasn't ... cords, and feeling the little fuzzy things shake, while we laid there in silence. I remember for a while I felt like we were all one person. Then Kryssy sat up really fast, "Christie, come with me. I have to take you somewhere." We jumped off the bed and I followed her out to the fron...

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... homework folder in the correct bin, get a breakfast tray and eat. The students then cleaned up after themselves, stored away the unopened leftovers and sat down on the rug for their math morning routines. Every day was a different routine according to the schedule and the students seemed to be exceptionally ... divided into a reading, writing and smart board station. All these stations required the students to be alone. However, there was one group that sat with Mr. Gonzalez and they were reviewing key elements from previous domains. Cooperative learning is a pedagogical strategy that en...

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... punishment for being late, her gym teacher told her to sit in the bleachers for the rest of the period. She didn't mind very much. Dana sat in the bleachers and watched the soccer ball go back and forth between teams. All of a sudden, the goalie kicked the ball high in the air ... lady ladled some vegetables onto the tray as well, and spilled the vegetable juice all over the main course. Dana carried the tray back to the table, and sat down with her friends. They all gazed intently at it for a minute, almost expecting it to move. Finally, Dana spoke up. "I was late to school ... seven...

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... . "Just leave a note next time, please. We were a little concerned." He didn't even respond; he just walked inside and flopped down on the couch. His dad sat in a nearby chair reading the newspaper. "Good mornin"," his dad said, looking up from the paper. "Hey, Dad," Tim responded. The conversation ended there. Tim spent ... was awake and involved in their normal, loud, morning activities, and yet he had slept through it. He got up and walked to the kitchen area and sat down mumbling, "Good mornin"," to everyone there. They each responded but he wasn't really listening. His mother had se...

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... around her new surroundings, the room was freezing, dark and had a lingering smell of smoke which had been absorbed by the pile of old, discolored newspapers that sat drearily in a damp corner of the room. The main focal point was a small, rather unhappy looking window facing into the darkness of the night. Lucy was now ... Oxford. There were large groups of people strewn over the large hall. Some were chatting to their friends and meeting all the new students and some sat with large cups of coffee deeply engrossed in term papers or large books obviously trying to block out the large noi...

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... transportation. The first to arrive after us where some unknown people to us but a younger couple with two smaller children, age perhaps 5, and 8, both girls. As we sat down to a pre-dinner drink the joined us. Exhausted, they explained, after leaving only an hour later than us but arriving 4 hours afterwards. Only because of cues. ... had been friends with for years, and I especially with the son who is my age. When they came in we all stood and greeted them and sat down again to eat our food as they unloaded their baggage in their rooms. When we were finished the last two families arri...

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... his daughter's honeymoon. Whenever Leonardo and Lydia went to the movies or for a ride, Cabading insisted on being taken along. If they seated him on the back seat while they sat together in front, be raged and glowered. He wanted to sit in front with them. When Leonardo came home from work, he must not tarry with Lydia in the bedroom ... type too". No matter, said Cabading. They didn't have to talk at all; he would do all the talking himself, so long as they sat there in the sala before his eyes. So, his compact family group sat around him at night, silent, while Cabading talked and ta...

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... to the arena floor. This was reserved for the high ranking and sacred people such as high priests and priestesses. The North side of this region sat the royal box reserved for the Emperor and his family; the South side box was reserved for the Hutchins 3 Perfect of the city and his guests ... of these was built in the city of Pompeii, located 140 miles South East of Rome. It was 445 feet long by 341 feet wide and sat 20,000 people - Pompeii's entire population. To support the weight of the tiers, the arena floor was constructed below ground level. Thefazade of the arena ... utilized hi...

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... back against a giant rock in the Newfoundland that they arrived at just shortly before. She's sat thinking about the past and the land they just sailed from but also trying to handle the land they just arrived at and foresee the future ahead of herself and ... family. There's a number of characters introduced in the beginning including Ned, Hazel, Meg, Isaac, Ben, Lizzie, Patience and Emma. They also mentioned Ned's old boss Richard Ellsworth. 2) Lavinia Andrews is sat against a rock in the Newfoundland trying to make sense of what has just happened. After dragged from her home she kne...

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... Instead of running out to hug her son and say goodbye she was found in the train saloon getting drunk. [Mrs. Ross] went into the salon and sat with her legs tucked beneath one of the pullman chairs and drank a third of a bottle of scotch. When Mister Ross came in and said it was time ... of Robert's letters. She would write him everyday but usually the letters were indecipherable. Her husband started to wish she would return to them, but she just sat staring, waiting for Robert's return. When the word came that Robert was missing in action Mrs. Ross lost it. It is easy to assume that she ...

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... priest with her own poisoned blade "come on my dear we have to leave this place" said Jasmine "Agreed my Prin.. King we have to retreat" Ezio agreed. As they sat down at the campsite Ezio went away to collect some wood and while Ezio was gone Jasmine and Rythian were talking about when they were younger for Jasmine is 17 ... three years?" said Rythian. "Four years to the day my king," Jasmine replied. ten minutes later Ezio returned to see Jasmine on Rythians lap furiously kissing each other Ezio sat down quietly then dropped the wood on the ground and Jasmine turned faster than lightni...

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She sat there in an empty field with the overly tall and too skinny boy who she calls "love" as he placed the white and lilac wildflowers carefully in her ... a tight line when she heard the voice again, mumbling. Don't let the demons get you love, she heard. Wake up. She shook her head, suddenly feeling light-headed, dizzy. Jack sat up slightly, looking over his girlfriend, his face expressionless. "Are you okay?" he asked. She barely nodded her head. Wake up! She heard again, more aggressive, panicked this ... are you?" she whispered nearly inaudible. She was sure that the man hadn't hear...

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... . Athena Nike was built as an expression of Athens' ambitions to defeat Sparta and become a world power. The temple was dedicated to the goddess Athena, the bringer of victory. It sat atop a hill on the southern edge of the Acropolis facing the Athenian people, who could then worship Athena in hopes for a favorable outcome from the war with Sparta. The white ... sturdy columns were built because of the confinement of space, due to the massive neighboring monuments, and perhaps due to lack of money, because of the  war. Atop each column sat the entablature and the frieze. The entablature...

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... wizard defeated the trolls. So, the journey continued. Tired from their travels, they rested in a cave, there they were captured by Goblins. "There in the shadows on a large flat stone sat a tremendous goblin with a huge head, and armed goblins were standing round him carrying the axes and bent swords that they use." (Tolkien 62) Using magic Gandalf helped the group to ... used his ring and evaded captivity, but followed the dwarves closely as they were led to the Elven King. "In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. On his h...

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... shook hands with an enthusiastic group lining the fence. The group called itself "Grassroots Democrats." John F. Kennedy then entered his open Lincoln convertible at the head of the motorcade. He sat in the rear seat on the right hand side. Mrs. Kennedy had appeared to be enjoying herself on one of the first political outings she had attended with her husband ... during his presidency. While in the car, she sat on his left. In the "jump" seats, directly ahead of Mr. Kennedy, sat Governor Connally, with Mrs. Connally at his left. A Secret Service agent was driving and two others ran alon...

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... hamburgers and play with the pinball machine with Ackley and another boy from the room next to his called Mal Brossard. After going home and getting rid of Ackley he sat down to write the descriptive composition for Stradlater. He decided to write about his brother Allie's, who died of leukemia, baseball mitt that Allie had written poems all over. He ... finished with Mr. Antolini on the phone, he went back to Phoebe's room only to find that she had turned the radio on. They danced together for a while. When they sat down again she tried to show him a trick a friend of hers taught her w...

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... activities, but he did so in the presence of others, which created a hostile environment between the two. It would have been interesting if Neil and his father would have actually sat down and chatted about what Neil wanted and what they could do to compromise. Even at the very end, when the two confronted each other right before Neil committed suicide ... in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. " - from Ulysses "It was a dark and rainy night. And this old lady who had a passion for jigsaw puzzles sat by herself in her house at her table to complete a new jigsaw puzzle. A...

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... respect, and didn't pause for an instant. But, with the air of a lord or lady, he perched above my chamber door upon a bust of Pallas (39-40). He perched and sat there, and nothing else (42). Then this black bird, deceiving my sad state into smiling, by the serious and firm manners of the air it wore, I said, "Although your top ... the bird, bust, and door (68). As I sank into the velvet, I took myself to thinking what this foreboding, solemn, ungraceful, grisly, haggard old bird meant by croaking "Nevermore-(69-72). I sat engaged in guessing this, but did not express a word to the fowl...

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