When an inmate chokes on his rice and coughs, a supervisor rushes over to rub his back.
This remedy works best on coughs that produce mucus and isn't suitable for dry coughs.
Here the weather may be clear and sunny. But stinging eyes and dry coughs show that harmful chemicals fill the air.
That helps synthesize city dwellers' individual coughs and wheezes into a collective project-in other words, information helps politicize pollution.
Having found the most likely existing match through an incredibly clever and speedy statistical reckoning device, Google Translate coughs it up, raw or, if necessary, lightly cooked.
Suzanne Smith of STAR Analytical Services, the firm behind the research, says: "Why haven't we been measuring coughs?"
"Kitty has no discretion in her coughs," said her father,"she times them ill."
