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Oxygen deprivation does strange things to the human body. Heart rates go haywire, brain function decreases, blood thickens, intestines shut down. Bad ideas inexplicably pop into your head, especially above 25,000 ft., where, as Krakauer famously wrote in Into Thin Air, climbers have the "mind of a reptile...
...Then again, President Bush was never going to turn the Europeans to his way of thinking. And that's less a function of his own abilities as a statesman than of his policy positions on issues such as missile defense and the Kyoto treaty that, while they may well carry the support of a majority of American legislators, are unpalatable to most Europeans. That's not much of a problem for Bush, of course - he's the first conservative in the Oval Office since the end of the Cold War, and Europe is not exactly a priority even...
...anything to stop her. According to a Secret Service source, agents have specific instructions from the President and First Lady to turn a blind eye to the collegiate high jinks of the First Daughters. "It's not our job to be substitute parents," the source says. "Our function is to keep her [Jenna] safe and secure and get her home every night." A good relationship between the Bush daughters and their minders matters, because as adults over 18, the twins can ditch their detail at any time. That means agents must take their lumps, letting misdemeanors go and trying...
...They were very concerned about the ability of Radcliffe to function on a year-to-year basis,” Fineberg says...
...Actually, he doesn't mind at all [that people were confused about his function] because he would have done anything to protect the king," says his son, Pankauz N. Shrestha...