1 Over years of chronic exposure to cigarette smoke, the decreased elasticity and destruction of alveoli leads to the slow destruction of lung function. 2  Alpha-1-antitrypsin (also known as alpha-1-antiprotease) is a substance that fights a destructive enzyme in the lungs called trypsin (or protease).
Bethpage and Farmingdale, town of Oyster Bay, Queens County, now Nassau County, Long Island, New York : three cemeteries (1832-1898) Ancestry Cemetery records in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York Family History Library
Who: Island Creek Oysters. Where: Duxbury, Massachusetts. One hot sunny day last week, I drove to Duxbury, Massachusetts to find out how oysters grow. My destination was the Island Creek Oyster farm, an oyster farm set in the cold, salty water of Duxbury Bay, about 30 minutes southeast of Boston. For years I've slurped oysters from their shell with little knowledge of how these bivalves came to be, but that was all about to change.