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What happens when your plane suddenly depressurizes? Any dramatic loss of pressure - caused by the sudden surge of outside air into the cabin - feels like you are going up a skyscraper in an elevator powered by a rocket. Your ears pop, and the pain can be intense. You may experience some temporary hearing problems, but nothing too serious in most cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Survive Plane Decompression | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

There were dozens of sharp spikes, all pointing inward. They were designed to perforate skin and flesh of anybody locked inside, but not deep enough to puncture any vital organs. That way, the torturers could inflict maximum pain on their victim without actually killing him. The spikes still bore the distinctive reddish-brown flakes of dried blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is the IOC Punishing Iraq? | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...gestures. Yet looking at his compromised memories, he wells up, and so do we, even as we know we're being sold. The Kodak suits want to focus on their machine's technology. Don argues that its true pull is emotional. "In Greek," Don says, "nostalgia literally means 'the pain from an old wound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Men on a New Frontier | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...devastating" to his wife of 48 years and "humiliating" for his two sons. "He is hardly exaggerating when he says that his life was ruined," Justice Eady wrote in his decision. Despite Mosley's fantasies involving canes, whips and spankings, a shattered family life could prove to be the pain that lasts the longest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mosley's Win: No 'Nazis' at the Orgy | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...those unwilling to compromise by adopting the soggy Jack LaLanne look or swimming in the safety of a net-protected "pool," doctors have some advice for coping with the sting. Rinse the lesion with cool seawater, they say, and once dry, apply a medicated cream to lessen the pain. Physicians warn against common but counter-productive remedies such as dousing the sting with drinking water, rubbing it with sand, trying to suck the venom from it and - especially - urinating on it. These "therapies," doctors say, are all certain to aggravate the sting's burning sensation, and the last one ... well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Jellyfish Attack | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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