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...breath after just a couple of minutes. When holding your breath underwater, however, you have a bit of mammalian evolution on your side. When humans are submerged in cold water, our bodies instinctively prepare to conserve oxygen, much in the way that dolphins' and whales' bodies do when they dive. "Heart rate drops, blood pressure goes up and circulation gets redistributed," Potkin says. The body's focus becomes getting the oxygenated blood primarily to the vital organs - the brain and the heart - and not the extremities or abdomen...
...Ares’ developmental transitions seem sudden and uninspired, and his experiences with puberty and teenage angst seem trite, almost cliché. After the story’s climax, when Ares covers for Malcolm’s fatal mistake, the novel’s narrative structure takes a dive. Years of Ares’ life are hastily, awkwardly summarized in a handful of pages, and Silver never fully explains the impact of Malcolm’s mistake on the two brothers and their relationship. She tries to force a sense of completeness on the narrative and attempts to give...
Kowalcky urged the task force to develop “a good hefty dose of organization” in the next few weeks in order to dive into the discussion and turn the community benefits process into tangible gains for Allston residents...
...regular lives while traumatic events like the Holocaust go on around them. “Most grownups know the statistics, they know history,” he said. “It’s not my role to tell you again. It’s my role to dive in behind the facts, to imagine, ‘How was it?’” This reliance on imagination is part of Forgács’ desire not to preach to his audience but rather to let them think for themselves. “I don?...
...have a steady job, I don’t love playing the same character for this long. At the same time I feel incredibly grateful and lucky for that opportunity,” he said. “For me movies are fun, though, because you get to dive into this thing for three months and then you get to leave it behind. My character in ‘Knocked Up’ I couldn’t play for an extended period of time. He made me sick.”Immediately following 2007?...