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...most non-medical people, the term "apnea" is most familiar when coupled with the word "sleep," and refers to a dangerous condition in which people inadvertently stop breathing while asleep. But the word literally means a temporary cessation of breathing and it is practiced (on purpose) around the world by an international community of extreme athletes - a brotherhood that now includes magician and stuntman David Blaine. On the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 30, Blaine broke the world record by holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds - proving that just how temporary apnea...
...suggest TIME give up the charade and change the name of the magazine to Obama Weekly. The timing and tone of your story on Obama's mother made it appear more like a campaign p.r. piece than a legitimate news story. Something tells me I should not hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, Decatur, Georgia...
...trying to share the spotlight.With post-childhood disasters like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears dominating the celebrity news, it’s unlikely that the “child star phenomenon” will become a thing of the past. In the meantime, let’s hold our breath for Dakota Fanning, Miley Cyrus, and Abigail Breslin. Way before ever becoming an agent, Iris Burton got her start as a dancer on Broadway and then in Hollywood. One of her only two film credits is as an unnamed dancer alongside Charlton Heston in “The Ten Commandments...
...live through our parents' passing and learn how little we know about the journey's end. Death will never be pretty--its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. And yet while sorrow is certain, fear is not. "She had a very good death," a friend says of her mother, and I have an idea of what she means and don't hear it as a shrug of denial or contradiction...
...charade and change the name of the magazine to Obama Weekly. The timing and tone of your cover story on Obama's mother made your April 21 issue look more like a campaign p.r. piece than legitimate news story. Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy cover stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, DECATUR...