Word: heartbeating
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...MEDIA, then, seem finally to be monitoring the national heartbeat, albeit a few months after the nation's anxiety began to escalate. The deepening recession and the President's inability to articulate a thoughtful, coherent economic policy is forcing the President, who refuses to bend of compromise, into a corner of isolation. As the White House's promises become mere verbiage. Reagan's Medical changes seem little more than a wishful ploy with evanescent political usefulness...
...sport is truly major league until the television networks and bookies say so, and neither at the moment acknowledges the National Hockey League. The New York Islanders recently won a record 15 games in a row without noticeably speeding up the nation's heartbeat. To Americans, hockey can appear an unfathomable melee of white, toothless Canadians padded like moonwalkers and armed to the gums with crooked sticks. Lately the perception of hockey as iced-over roller derby is more prevalent than ever, what with retired Philadelphia Flyer Dave Schultz (most penalty minutes alltime) regretting the hockey "enforcer...
...knife fight. The 20-year-old fish-market laborer had no pulse, no blood pressure and no breath left in a body that was already "very cold to touch," according to Dr. Daryl Isaacs, who was in charge of the emergency room. Yet five minutes later, Thomas' heartbeat was restored, a recovery that Isaacs described as "the most wondrous thing we've ever experienced...
...since at least the 1960s, but findings are contradictory. In one sampling, the percentage of controllers with high blood pressure was only a third of the national average. In another, the percentage was more than double the norm. One researcher found frequent ulcers and other stomach disorders. Another found heartbeat irregularities among controllers at twice the rate for other men their age. Still other research found that resentment of management was the greatest source of controller dissatisfaction, while "stress" was, in fact, the negative aspect of work that the controllers cited least. In addition, rates of alcohol abuse and divorce...
Drug laws, in the U.S. classify cocaine as a narcotic, along with opium, heroin and morphine. Yet the last three are "downers," which quiet the body and dull the senses, while coke is a stimulant, or "upper," similar to amphetamines. It increases the heartbeat, raises blood pressure and body temperature, and curbs appetite. Like a shot of adrenalin, coke puts the body into an emergency state...