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Audrey Mestre took the last of a series of deep breaths floating in the ocean off the Dominican Republic on Oct. 12, then plunged below the surface. The Frenchwoman, 28, dropped rapidly, one hand pinching her nose to help equalize the pressure in her ears, the other clinging to a...
“It really hammers at your lungs,” said Sean Gomez, a dancer and a software-engineering graduate student at Brandeis University who refereed the match. He started training with kettlebells two months ago to maintain his fitness between dance rehearsals. “It?...
Does it make you sick? Marijuana may directly affect the immune system, since one of the body's two known receptors for cannabinoids is located in immune cells. But the nature of the effect is unclear. A recent study showed that THC inhibits production of immune-stimulating substances. But cigarette...
Home was another matter. Hilary couldn't fall asleep in her own bed and started climbing into Ginny's. She was having bad dreams--a recurring nightmare from when she was very young about her house burning to the ground with the three of them trapped inside. Hilary had also...
While the developed nations debate how to fuel their power plants, however, some 1.6 billion people--a quarter of the globe's population--have no access to electricity or gasoline. They cannot refrigerate food or medicine, pump well water, power a tractor, make a phone call or turn on an...