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...course, another factor associated with longer holding times is the consumption of pure oxygen beforehand. The world record for holding your breath after inhaling pure oxygen is now Blaine's - 17 minutes and 4 seconds. The record without the pure oxygen, which Blaine failed to break during an attempt last year in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is 8 minutes and 58 seconds...
...second varsity] has always been the strongest in the league by far and last year. We were probably 20 or 30 seconds better this year but we should have been a lot closer.” “We’ve only rowed together three times beforehand,” she added. “I think we need more time rowing together I think that the [first varsity] benefitted from having a more set line up.” For all races, a headwind slowed down the second half of the course. Technical problems at the start...
...dinner” menu. According to the HUDS Web site, breakfast foods are more sustainable because they take less resources to produce. Pforzheimer House will be screening “An Inconvenient Truth” today, with House Master and Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy speaking beforehand and taking questions after. Each upperclass House is holding activities for Earth Day, such as dishware return drives and environmentally themed stein clubs. Love Your Earth Week culminates Saturday with a “Charles River Cleanup” in the morning and the afternoon EAC Earth Day Celebration...
...yesterday night. Her new book, “The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir,” discusses the dynamics of her family relationships following the death of her daughter, an event described in her previous memoir “Paula.” Allende warned the audience beforehand that the book had “nothing spiritual or profound in it. It’s just gossip.” The sell-out audience, filled with both dedicated fans and new readers, responded enthusiastically, frequently interrupting her Spanish-accented speech with appreciative laughter. Allende read three chapters from...
...protests that surround the relay, says Steve Tsang, a China specialist at Oxford University. "It is very much self-inflicted damage to China's position in the international community," he says. "In any event you'd have protests ... but the scale became much bigger when interest groups knew beforehand that they would be guaranteed prime-time television coverage. What was the Chinese government thinking? How could it send the People's Armed Police to beat up protesters, even push around foreign celebrities holding the torch, and not attract even more attention...