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...drivers have been instructed to wait one minute beyond their scheduled departure time at all stops to assist students who are reasonably on time. The one exception will be during our peak morning times when busses are full and no additional passengers may safely be accommodated...
...four Palestinian climbers--including former combatants in the fighting--scaled a hitherto unconquered mountain in remote Antarctica last week and raised their flags on its summit. The Israeli-born businessman behind the plan, HESKEL NATHANIEL, then read a proclamation calling for an end to violence and dubbed the peak the Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Peace...
...researchers suspect, do the neurotransmitters epinephrine and norepinephrine, whose usual job is to pump up our energy when we're in danger. Blood-plasma levels of both chemicals increase during masturbation, peak at orgasm and then decline, and by-products of norepinephrine metabolism remain elevated for up to 23 hours after sex. It's not yet clear, though, whether this is a cause or an effect of arousal...
...explain the link until the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Using fMRI to view the brains of easily orgasmic women as they climaxed, either with visual stimuli or by self-stimulation, Whipple found that the body's pain-killing center in the midbrain is activated during peak arousal. Signals from this part of the brain instruct the body to release endorphins and corticosteroids, which can temporarily numb the raw nerve endings responsible for everything from menstrual cramps to arthritis and migraine for several minutes. Activating this region also reduces anxiety and has a calming effect...
...From his entrance in the league in 1975 until 1986, the Eck was a dominating starting pitcher, compiling double-digit win totals in nine of those seasons. However, Eckersley had a difficult battle with alcohol abuse in the mid-eighties that coincided with his slip from his peak as a 20-game winner in 1978 to the point where he was simply mediocre...