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...canals of the Netherlands and Belgium. But this season, Hadji-Ioannou discontinued the Riviera route, redeploying one (so far) of his ships to ply the coasts of his home country, beginning May 18. "Greece is an ideal environment for this unique concept to work best," he says. "Its cluster of close-distance islands means more itineraries--and money for us--rather than sailing the Riviera coast." Like the pioneer's 16 other companies, including easyJet, easyBus and easyHotel, easyCruise is based on the assumption that for some travelers, money and convenience trump amenities, which in the case of easyCruise rules...
...Giuliani is trying to be that savvy second vendor - allowing his competitors to cluster on the right while he stakes out a position slightly closer to the middle. Thanks to the early primary schedule he is banking on, we'll know soon enough if the gamble pays...
...mercifully uncommon cluster headache, so named because an attack typically repeats itself, often daily, with each episode lasting anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half. Cluster headaches usually strike their victims, generally men, at fixed times of the year. The pain is so searing that they are also known as suicide headaches. Immediate treatment with oxygen and migraine drugs given intravenously can sometimes provide relief...
Somewhere between tension and cluster headaches are migraines. Typically, the pain from a migraine is a throbbing one, restricted to one side of the head, that gets worse with movement and lasts from four hours to three days. Migraines are usually accompanied by either nausea and vomiting, as they were for TV producer Schipper, or extreme sensitivity to both light and sound. By contrast, patients suffering from tension-type headaches may react badly to either light or sound but not both...
...forehead to the brain. During the course of a migraine, scientists discovered, the trigeminal nerve practically floods the brain with pain signals. The more researchers learn about the trigeminal nerve, the more they believe that it is involved in all types of primary headaches, including tension and cluster headaches. The differences in the headache types seem to stem from what activates the trigeminal nerve and how it responds...