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...Nausea, boredom and physical discomfort set in, and a few people begin raising their hands for the official silver-colored est bags to throw up in. By around midnight (no watches are allowed in the room), we have been going more than 15 hours with only two bathroom breaks and no food. Ron announces we will go without a food break today (groans) but we will just do a few exercises and go home (sighs of relief). We go another two or three hours, of course, so the anger can build into fury. We do "processes" (relaxation and meditation exercises...
...devil's domain isn't so unpleasant, it smells of earth and spice, while there's a noticeable stench in heaven. Nonetheless, he wistfully longs for material comforts or transcendent bliss--some new clothes would be nice, he hasn't changed since the Spanish Inquisition. The onset of Nausea puts an end to such thoughts, though, and Sartre hasn't even come along yet (Panizza wrote in 1873). Back to work...
...Perahia laid aside his baton for a Steinway. He was 25, short on experience, and well aware that he needed a competition success to make a name for himself. Fighting nausea all the way, he won England's important Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. That brought him 50 performing dates and a contract with Columbia Records, which had not signed a new pianist since Andre Watts in the mid-1960s. His concert fees started to rise. (He now makes $5,000 per engagement...
Carbon monoxide is a noxious gas which binds hemoglobin and prevents the uptake of oxygen. When an athlete is exposed to moderate amounts of CO he may suffer headaches and nausea, decreased visual acuity and reduced maximal work rates. As a consequence, the athlete is not able to judge time intervals correctly and his response time is decreased. In addition the athlete risks coronary artery disease. Harvard athletes are exposed to significant amounts of carbon monoxide when exercising in Watson Rink or running along the Charles--and the effects are magnified due to their increased breathing rate...
...most often when it is too late--when they accompany the woman to request a morning-after pill. UHS doctors administer the morning-after pill on request--perhaps even too freely some students' claim--within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse. Because of the pill's side-effects, such as nausea, the doctors require that the potential user fill out a questionnaire and take a pregnancy test...