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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How David Blaine Held His Breath | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

President Bush is trying belatedly to move an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal forward, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the U.S. asked Carter not to engage with Hamas' leaders because they support Israel's destruction. But critics say peace without Hamas could prove difficult, thanks to the parliamentary majority it won in January 2006. "I'm a free citizen," says Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Peace, "and I decided that somebody should talk to Hamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...example, in an attempt to prove that “racism doesn’t always prevent minorities from prospering,” he claims that before the Civil Rights Movement blacks had a higher labor force participation rate than whites, but after the movement, they had a lower participation rate. First, this participation rate does not equal prosperity. If participation in the labor force were the definition of prosperity, then black tenant farmers would have been defined as more prosperous than their white landlords. Second, though a greater proportion of blacks may have been in the labor force before...

Author: By Matthew K. Clair | Title: Black Culture Is Not the Problem | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

About Me: My motto is: work hard, play hard. I’m just a girl from the South trying to make a difference, and hope I can prove that brains can come with beauty. And I’m totally working on bringing back the party grant...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust, Beyond the Limited Facebook Profile | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...true that Moyers presented a fairer, more nuanced picture of Wright-especially the good works done by Wright's church, the hundreds of lives saved and enriched by the church's social ministry, which, if Saint Peter actually does sit on a cloud with an account book, will surely prove more important than Wright's self-absorbed lurches into hateful speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Wright | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

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