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...Suppressing the powerful pain impulse too successfully can prove deadly: subjects can continue holding their breath up to the point that their brains shut down from lack of oxygen. If you're 100 feet under water - or even three feet underwater in a pool - it's not a good time to pass out. In order to break the world record, Blaine had to hold his breath without fainting. (Had he continued until he'd depleted his brain's oxygen, however, Potkin is convinced he could have gone for another full minute...
...desert in California a year before I actually did it, and I spent months on end climbing up the pillar every day, standing up there, hanging out up there and getting comfortable and jumping down into cardboard boxes and airbags and getting used to jumping down 100 feet continuously and getting used to being up at that height...
...previous inning: Big Green left fielder Jason Blydell took a grand slam away from Crimson freshman Dillon O’Neill by grabbing a hard-hit ball from beyond the outfield fence, maintaining the shutout and bringing the many fans who had traveled from Hanover to their feet. Dartmouth lefty slugger Santomauro wasted no time getting the Big Green on the board in the nightcap, showing opposite-field power with a two-run shot to left-center in the first. Dartmouth added single runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings, running the score to 5-0 before Big Green...
...Powers, “If I overthink the meanings of the paintings then the paintings aren’t any good.” He likes to paint alone, and when painting outside tends to “wear headphones and scowl at anyone who comes within a hundred feet,” so as to avoid discussions with onlookers about unfinished pieces. Of his audience, Powers says “You want to hit them over the head. You want to give them something they wouldn’t necessarily expect.” Powers plans to continue animating...
...sign warns that the water issuing from it may be unhealthy. The ugly concrete drain structure is maligned by graffiti - "Rizzo [hearts] Jenny" - and gnats attack any exposed skin as soon as you set foot on Fletcher Cove sand. Big, bulbous, black stink bugs fearlessly investigate your feet as soon as you sit; if you let them, they'll crawl right up your leg. At the press conference on Sunday, Solana Beach public-safety director David Ott uttered words of wisdom: "This is a marine environment. It's the ocean. It's their environment," he said. Just...