Word: breath
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Whatever is done about aid, though, outside powers have only marginal ability to influence what happens inside what must be called the former Soviet Union. Soviet citizens must decide their fate themselves, while the world holds its breath. The failed coup and the turmoil that has followed are fundamentally enormously hopeful events. If the immediate results are chaotic -- well, revolutions by their nature cannot be tidy. The trouble is that the most democratic revolutions can so easily degenerate into lasting chaos, out of which a new dictatorship can be born. Remember the February 1917 revolution that overthrew the Czar...
...live in Sioux City, Iowa. "Congratulations!" she triumphantly exclaimed. "You're pregnant." Not long thereafter, Christa, viewing an ultrasound picture of her mother's tummy, saw two heartbeats and realized that her mother would give birth to twins. "How lucky could I be!" Christa said. "This just takes my breath away...
Reporters in Washington held their collective breath last week wondering who, if anyone, would perform the laundering service for the vicious story in a gay magazine claiming that a Pentagon official is homosexual. The Los Angeles-based Advocate tried to get publicity for itself by offering an advance copy of the piece to major news outlets that would agree to run it. Although the individual has not been antigay or hypocritical or done any of the other things gay groups use as excuses for "outing" people, Jack Anderson broke the story in his syndicated column, deciding that being first...
...information about 25 infants who died face down. All of the babies had been sleeping on soft cushions, filled with polystyrene beads, intended for infants. The two colleagues began their investigation with a simple test. Each held one of the suspect pillows to his own face and tried to breathe through it. "If you breathe into it for a minute or two, you're O.K.," says Kemp, an expert in the physiology of infant airways. "But after that you really feel out of breath and uncomfortable...
Couched at the top of one of countless waterfalls that bathe the southeastern foothills of the Peruvian Andes, I enjoy the cool breath of the cascade, which takes the edge off the equatorial sun. From nearby promontories, an observer can look upward to the cloud forests that cling to the mountainous rim of the Amazon basin, or down into the steamy lowland rain forests that extend thousands of miles to the east. As far as the eye can see and beyond, there are no villages, roads or towns. Lying below is the Manu, a 7,000-sq.-mi. area...