61.   The makers say the device works by opening nasal passages wider.

62.   The infection from the organism, Naegleria fowleri, is believed to occur when water is forced into the nasal passages.

63.   The microscopic organism that causes PAM enters the body through nasal passages and can quickly cause deadly swelling of the brain.

64.   The operation was bloody, requiring surgeons to pack yards of gauze into the nasal passages.

65.   The product, called FluMist by Aviron is prepared from live flu viruses modified to survive only in the nasal passages, not in the lower respiratory tract.

66.   The sensation from the minty fumes as they infiltrated the nasal passage and the gullet.

67.   The soup proved the most effective liquid in clearing up the nasal passages.

68.   The rigid strip resembles an elongated butterfly bandage and is said to pull open nasal passages gently, increasing the flow of oxygen to winded lungs.

69.   The worst appears to be over for American Media employee Ernesto Blanco, the mailroom worker who had an anthrax spore found in his nasal passage.