American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder’s lifelong attraction to passion for if not obsession with the work of James Joyce has led unintended consequences. Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin Our Teeth, while in midst “unriddling” Joyce’s final novel, Finnegans Wake. Accusations plagiarism subsequently arise from two major scholars, Jos...

We have studied 26 asthmatic patients in whom deep inspiration induced a transient but marked bronchodilatation when carbachol-induced bronchoconstriction was present. Changes in bronchial tone were assessed by specific airway resistance measurements. Bronchodilatation after a slow inspiration (eight subjects) or a 10-second breath-hold at total lung capacity (13 subjects) was significantly les...

The purpose of our study was to compare inspiratory- and expiratory-related changes in retropalatal cross-sectional area (CSA) during wakefulness to those during non-rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep. We studied 18 subjects in whom the severity of sleep-disordered breathing varied. Relative changes in CSA were visualized by using fiber-optic endoscopy. For each breath analyzed (wakefulness n = 4-...