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...study looked at the blood of 488 runners in the 2002 Boston Marathon. An astonishing 13% of them showed clear signs of hyponatremia, and three were at the danger level. The condition is most likely to strike novice runners, as élite athletes don't want to lose seconds by slowing down at the water stations that line race routes--and they know from experience that they don't have...
...pervert victimizing defenseless women in their own homes. It didn’t seem strange to anyone that some of these empowered, independent women, singled out purely for their sex, had felt shattered by his words. And many found it perfectly reasonable that, despite the lack of any apparent danger, the police should be called upon to take action, to come down hard on this creep, and stop...
...Reading Earth's Danger Signs I appreciated Nancy Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet even with an awareness of the crisis, I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit. This may necessitate enormous changes within our society. Claudia Schaer...
...fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today?" Gibbs asked. Our brains are hardwired to respond to immediate dangers, not ones that are years or decades away. A term like global warming is too benign, especially for those like me who live in a cold climate and might welcome an increase of a few degrees. Perhaps we should use the term global boiling, like the proverbial experiment in which a frog stays in a gradually warming pot of water and eventually dies. Maybe we all need to visualize the destruction to make us feel...
...years or more than anyone could have possibly expected,” he said. Schelling, who is the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, also discussed five wars since World War II in which the U.S., Soviet, U.K., and Israeli governments withheld the use of nuclear weapons despite danger that they would ultimately lose. Moving on to the current situation of nuclear proliferation, Schelling said that he believes both North Korea and Iran have the capability to develop nuclear weapons, and said he hopes these two countries will “think ahead of time of some of the responsibilities...