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Humorists do not cry, much, and Bombeck returned to life in Arizona without a backward look. Her children are on their own now (Bombeck gives a heartfelt "whew!" and wipes her hand across her forehead). Betsy is a computer retailer in Los Angeles; Andrew, who served in the Peace Corps in Liberia, teaches gifted students in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Matthew works at an advertising agency in Los Angeles while he writes television scripts. They all agree that family life was warm and normal, not the succession of disasters that Bombeck still thinks she brought on their heads...
Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his head, hit the sand, rolled over and ran his hand across his forehead. Sure enough, there was blood. Again they carried him to the medical station. The doctor took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...
...Suddenly the man's hand came up and a small red hole made by a twenty two caliber bullet appeared on--'s forehead...
...yonder stand the thirsty cottonwoods (planted there a century ago by Army officers trying to please their wives) that indicate water, in this case the Rio Grande. And there, by a washed-out footbridge, a bandanna round his forehead and a bolo tie, secured by a silver-and-turquoise slide, round his neck, stands Domingo Atencio, the beginning of this tale...
...body's natural defense mechanisms. Prominent among these may be the so-called mammalian dive reflex, which allows whales and seals to remain submerged in cold water. It is theorized that humans also have this protection. The reflex is triggered when frigid water splashes over the forehead and nose; nerves signal the brain to divert oxygen-rich blood from the limbs to the heart and brain. An even more important defense against brain damage is a phenomenon known as sub mersion hypothermia: the extreme cold of the surrounding water, and of water breathed into the lungs, cools the body...