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...five attempts--most of which ended abruptly in large bodies of water--he made it. But by staying far south, he shortened what would have been a nearly 25,000-mile journey at the equator to 19,428 miles. He spent 15 days in freezing cold, breathing through an oxygen mask and using a bucket as a toilet, before alighting in Queensland, Australia, where he dispensed with fine wine and guzzled a Bud Light. Even a millionaire needs endorsements...
...meal, you can abandon the stove altogether. Hot Pack Self-Heating Meals are used by emergency personnel and hard-core campers. After the sealed meal is placed in a pouch, water (of any temperature) is added, and in 12 minutes, through the magic of magnesium and oxygen, the food is piping hot. The meals, in such flavors as Chicken and Vegetable Casserole and Rotini Bolognese, come with a napkin. --By Desa Philadelphia
Another type of brain scan tells scientists which brain cells are using the most oxygen or soaking up the most nutrients. The idea, explains Dr. Scott Rauch of Massachusetts General Hospital, is that any area that seems more active than usual while someone is anxious may play an important role in making the person that way. Rauch's team has spent the past eight years scanning groups of combat veterans, some with post-traumatic stress disorder and some without, to see which areas of the brain light up when they hear tapes recounting their most troubling memories...
...terrorist attack on New York City hangs mostly unspoken over The Hamptons. But there's an elegiac air amid the sun and glitz here, a reminder of the feeling, even before Sept. 11, that the turn-of-the-century easy-money culture was fading. (One subject, Josh Sagman, an oxygen-bar peddler--he literally charges people to breathe--is the embodiment of cocky boom-era entrepreneurialism.) Even in midsummer, local author Steven Gaines talks about the place in the past tense. "This was the resort that was closest to the financial center of the world," he says. "This moment...
...mind, it turns out, can be nourished by certain foods just as much as the body, particularly foods high in antioxidants. When brain cells burn oxygen for energy, molecules called free radicals are created to eliminate harmful toxins. But when free-radical levels get too high, the free radicals start damaging neurons. Antioxidants keep these levels down...