Word: hypothermia
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...Lycra compression shorts he wore under his football pants. High-end specialists who sold gear for mountaineering and skiing offered pricey garments made with an inner layer of fabric that wicked perspiration away from the skin to an outer layer where it would evaporate. These clothes helped prevent hypothermia in extreme cold. But nobody made what Plank wanted: an affordable, featherweight, moisture-wicking T shirt--one that would fit skintight so it would lie flat under straps and pads...
...cold, combined with the fact that the unconscious students were heavily intoxicated, made hypothermia a major concern for the emergency medical technicians on the scene...
...write a letter to The Crimson about the Paulin flap and tell “Ayatollah Summers” that his “bigotry is showing.” Those do not sound like the words of a chilled man. Nor does Paulin seem to have suffered much hypothermia, as his friends report that he will likely accept the English department’s latest invitation and come to Harvard next spring (assuming that the number of department reversals between now and then is even...
Walking up Quincy Street, I asked Teddy when, if ever, he wore shoes. Not one to chance hypothermia, Teddy slips on the “leather coffins” when the temperature dips below 50° Fahrenheit. Teddy has, however, contemplated employing modern technology in a bid to keep himself barefooted 365 days a year. Thus far, Teddy reports that he has failed in his efforts to engineer a sort of “furry” foot mitten that could insulate and permit ample foot-to-earth contact...
...funny if they weren't being told against a backdrop of tragedy. There was the recent joint exercise of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, during which agents argued for an hour over who was in charge, while actors playing the dead and dying got hypothermia. There is the sad tale of the Center for Defense Preparedness run by the Department of Justice, which "trains trainers" to respond to toxic emergencies--and whose current budget allows it to operate at 25% of capacity. There is the rivalry--or is it hatred?--between the Immigration and Naturalization...