Word: breathing
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...enough to give anyone palpitations. Scientists have shown that injecting alcohol into a congenitally enlarged heart and deliberately inducing a heart attack can ease the shortness of breath, chest pain and other symptoms of the genetic disorder. The alcohol--it's ethanol, equivalent to 200-proof vodka--kills overgrown heart muscle, enabling blood to flow more freely...
...rest of the contest, the Crimson kept the ball on the Dartmouth side, and had a number of good scoring opportunities. And when Dartmouth did get an offensive rush, junior goalie Anne Browning came through with save after save, tallying 11 for the day, including a breath-taking diving stop in the 67th minute that drew loud cheers from the crowd...
...provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed, bullet-headed, forever-tan egomaniac" publicist, adds a touch of much needed vulgarity to the usually cordial dialogue. For him, everything the press writes isn't worth "a thimble-full of rat's piss." Always mentioned in the same breath as the faltering Mr. P is the superhuman Placido Domingo (everyone's second favorite tenor.) Hoelterhoff describes Domingo's unfailing energy, which allows him to conduct a matinee performance of one opera, star as lead role in another opera that evening, then hop on a plane to the other side...
...Washington correspondent Jay Branegan, "and it appears they have." Voters sent a strong message to Washington to back off on impeachment -- in exit polls, 61 percent disapproved of the Republicans' handling of the presidential scandal -- but that doesn't mean President Clinton is off the hook: "After a deep breath of one or two days the Washington establishment will again be baying at the moon of impeachment," says Branegan...
...presidential election. Elsewhere, it seems, the religious conservative base of the Republican party was simply not motivated enough to turn out in the same kind of numbers that made 1994 such a watershed. Does that mean President Clinton is off the hook? Not according to Branegan. "After a deep breath of one or two days," he says, "the Washington establishment will again be baying at the moon of impeachment...