Cases of the bacterial disease pertussis, nicknamed for the "whoop" sufferers sometimes make as they gasp for breath after a long coughing spell, have risen from 1, 010 in 1976 to over 25, 000 today, according to the CDC.

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It is not long before Lown fails a series of breath tests, but even after a final warning he is not convinced by the officers' stance.

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It is an inspirational recount of a man's life -- a man whose passion for the human spirit has continued to live long after his last breath.

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"We need to take a very long breath now, " sighed 27-year-old Avinoam Rozenbaum the day after he sat with some 600 other Israeli students to listen to Barack Obama's main speech during his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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