Word: focusing
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...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...
...change the name of the magazine to Obama Weekly. The timing and tone of your cover story on Obama's mother made your issue [Apr. 21] look more like a campaign p.r. piece than legitimate news story. Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy cover stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, Decatur...
...Your April 21 cover story should have been titled "Raising Obama: A Grandmother's Story." It would have resonated more had there been more focus on Obama's life with the grandparents who raised him and less delicate tiptoeing around his mother's often unfortunate choices and impetuous decisions. Linda Dahlheimer, St. Louis...
...believe the ROTC commissioning ceremony to be an appropriate forum for making political statements against the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Joseph M. Kristol ’09, a Marine midshipman, said that the ceremony should only focus on celebrating the achievements of students who have completed their training. “It’s just a happy, joyous occasion, so the idea that a speech would radicalize the event is unnecessary,” he said. “If it’s going...
...study.” The class will fulfill the history concentration’s reading seminar requirement, according to Caron P. Yee, the undergraduate coordinator for the Department of History. Johnson said that readings will be culled from history books covering the 17th to the 21st centuries, with a focus on the United States and African-Americans—his areas of research. The idea for the class came from Johnson’s research, which centers on questions about the history of slavery, particularly the history of violence and the sensory experience of slavery...