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...reasons for such reactions vary considerably. Oxygen deprivation during surgery, leading to identifiable brain disturbances, explains only a handful of cases. Many problems appear to be emotional in origin. Most patients go into such operations with anxiety, sometimes depression over both the risks and the results. Those who survive face a painful awakening when the anesthetic wears off. They come to in the hospital's intensive care unit, surrounded by machinery to help them breathe and with tubes coming out of their noses, mouths and other orifices. Some resent this depersonalizing dependence upon technology and remain depressed until they...
...approval, which usually meant that the names had to be chosen from the saints' hagiography. Still, by 1803 the proliferation of names was such that a law was enacted strictly limiting the selection of first names to those of the saints or of Greek, Roman or biblical origin. Charles de Gaulle loosened the names policy somewhat in 1966, but French law still explicitly allows and even encourages Frenchmen to change surnames that are considered to reflect poorly on France and the French...
Other wives are protesting the protesters, saying that they do not want the public to think all Navy wives distrust their husbands. But beyond that, something may possibly survive of the ancient superstition that women aboard ship bring evil luck. It may be that the origin of that superstition is just now coming to the surface...
...chosen in the same manner as delegates; no automatic seats for party officers or elected officials; an "endeavor" on the part of each state for equal representation of men and women; no abridgment of the right to participate for reasons of "race, sex, religion, age, color or national origin"; and provision of state committee funds to defray a delegate's expenses. Percy, pursuing a different tack, is trying to change the current delegate "bonus" system, arguing that it enables small states to swing more weight relative to their size than large states...
...muon beams were used to take some of the load off communications satellites. Aimed beyond the earth's atmosphere, a muon beam would be bent down toward the surface again by the earth's magnetic field and could be detected hundreds of miles from its point of origin...