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...Suppressing the powerful pain impulse too successfully can prove deadly: subjects can continue holding their breath up to the point that their brains shut down from lack of oxygen. If you're 100 feet under water - or even three feet underwater in a pool - it's not a good time to pass out. In order to break the world record, Blaine had to hold his breath without fainting. (Had he continued until he'd depleted his brain's oxygen, however, Potkin is convinced he could have gone for another full minute...
...Khushwa. He would be a normal kid but for the fact that nine years after his birth with a bladder defect, his family is still struggling to get him what should be a simple and relatively cheap operation. Like many sick Indians, Abhishek is both symptom and cause. His lack of proper treatment is reason enough for national shame but his ill health hurts the country in turn, not only forcing the frail-looking boy to miss school for a week or two every few months while he searches hospital by hospital for some relief, but dragging his uninsured family...
...sorry state of India's medical services might not matter so much if tens of millions of Indians weren't already so sick. Part of the problem is the lack of infrastructure - not fancy hospitals or equipment but basic services such as clean water, a functioning sewage system, power. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 900,000 Indians die every year from drinking bad water and breathing bad air. The Indian government says that 55% of households have no toilet facilities. Many cities lack sewers. The missing infrastructure is not unique to India. Parts of Africa face similar...
...battle with a bewildering array of enemies, ranging from al-Qaeda terrorists and Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias to well-armed criminal gangs. Motivation is another problem: soldiers get starting salaries of $375 a month, policemen $95 a month. Iraqi commanders also complain that they are poorly equipped: they lack airpower and heavy weapons...
...creates a greater atmosphere of student creativity on campus.” Miller, who has been playing the saxophone since the age of nine and performing in gigs since age 13, says Acoustic Tuesdays have a “relaxed, kind of college-feel, [something] that sometimes is lacking at Harvard.” Though Acoustic Tuesdays are also jazzed up by performers such as Jake M. McNulty ’11 and Juan Carlos Valdes Fernandez ’11, Miller and Campbell are the cornerstones of the weekly event. Miller discovered early in his college career that...