Word: detacher
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...have to remember to detach myself a little bit because I get so caught up in the words,” Dorvil said...
...gravity for hours on end. My mind found itself wandering down well-worn, if paranoiac paths, imagining images of small pebbles and pigeons being sucked into the intake of the engine directly outside my window and my horror at seeing the entire wing of our plane shudder and detach, tumbling end-over-end, destroying the beautiful and necessary symmetry of the airfoil at 29,000 feet...
...economy-class syndrome," DVT can strike cramped passengers in any section of an aircraft. In some victims, the effect of the blood clots might be a sharp stabbing pain and swelling in the lower leg. In others, it might be much more serious: part of the clot may detach itself and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it can cause a pulmonary embolism, an obstruction that can prove fatal. The Slater & Gordon case goes to the heart of the issue: to be successful, the firm must show the airlines both knew the risks and gave insufficient warning...
...economy-class syndrome, DVT can strike passengers in any section of an aircraft. In some victims the effect of the blood clots might be only a sharp stabbing pain and swelling in the lower leg. In others it might be much more serious - part of the clot may detach itself and travel through the bloodstream to the lungs, where it can cause a fatal obstruction. Last October, British traveler Emma Christofferson, 28, died shortly after flying home from Australia. Last month, a woman in her late 40s suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism during an 11-hour flight between Johannesburg...
MOST CRUCIAL PIECE OF TRIVIA "Hanging chad"--not a sport fish or a porn star but what you get when the little paper punch-out doesn't detach fully from the ballot...