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...Suppressing the powerful pain impulse too successfully can prove deadly: subjects can continue holding their breath up to the point that their brains shut down from lack of oxygen. If you're 100 feet under water - or even three feet underwater in a pool - it's not a good time to pass out. In order to break the world record, Blaine had to hold his breath without fainting. (Had he continued until he'd depleted his brain's oxygen, however, Potkin is convinced he could have gone for another full minute...
...wanted to mount it before the election, and the only way that was possible was if I produced and directed it myself, which I did in the Adams Pool [Theatre] in October of 2004,” Miller says. “It was insane, because I just threw together whoever I could find, but it ended up being quite successful and sort of launched my theatrical career...
...eight and usually age 20, but often in junior high, where if things aren’t working out so well socially for you, for whatever reason, you spend a lot of time with books,” Franzen said. “Not surprisingly that pool of readers tends to give us most of our writers.” Wood noted that Franzen has had a difficult time writing novels after the success of “The Corrections,” and that he has spent the past few years publishing “a lot of nonfiction...
...animal likely mistook Martin, who was clad in a black wetsuit, for a seal. Some here are even wondering if, in a way, the seals are actually responsible for Martin's death: in the last few years, seals have overtaken a local coastal area known as Children's Pool. San Diego County residents are in the midst of a heated debate over whether that beach should be cleared of the infiltrating seals so that humans can swim there once again. Environmentalists feel that Children's Pool should be established as a seal sanctuary. Martin's death scored a point...
...were hoping for good news this past week. Unfortunately for Ungar, only Cross was rewarded for her efforts, landing a spot on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team headed to Beijing. The official announcement will be made following this weekend’s national championship. Ungar finished third in the pool of American fencers, a mark that would normally be good enough to send a fencer to the international competition. However, because the U.S. team did not place in the top eight in the world, only the No. 1 fencer in the American field qualified. Cross, on the other hand, made...