Word: seales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supply of circulating oxygen is cut off for more than four or five minutes, and drowns in a few minutes more. But they also knew that any one of several diving birds (loons, grebes, cormorants and "sea ducks") can endure immersion for more than ten minutes. The warmblooded seal can endure under water for more than 20 minutes, and the equally warm-blooded whale can last for an hour, perhaps even two. Scholander's odd experiments were carefully designed to discover how the aquatic animals survive...
...More, but Less. The idea that these birds and mammals store up extra oxygen for their endurance dives was exploded long ago. Somehow they manage to survive on less oxygen rather than more. But how? Dr. Scholander soon found out that on submergence in a bathtub the seal's heartbeat is slowed to about one-tenth of its normal rate. This happens so fast that the trigger for the circulatory defense mechanism seems to be psychological rather than physical. Scholander's experiments proved this. A loud, sharp noise produces the same heart-slowing effect on a seal...
What happens in man, Dr. Scholander told the American Philosophical Society last month, is much the same as what happens in the seal, though less pronounced. The human volunteer who holds his breath while his mouth is under water reacts in much the same way as a seal trained to perform a symbolic dive by keeping its snout submerged in a tub. In both, the heartbeat is slowed. More significant, the flow of blood through flippers or feet is sharply reduced. So is the flow of blood through intestines and kidneys-everywhere except in the brain, lungs and heart. Even...
...college should at no time allow a totally biased and bigoted viewpoint to be unequivocally expressed from a rostrum bearing the college seal. Martin Wasserman Williams College...
...classy stare of fashion writers, five sexy mannequins paraded such sporty ensembles as a corduroy shooting jacket with suede gun patches and shell-case buttons; a polar-bear parka for $2,000; a pleated shooting culotte with snake-proof boots for huntresses with pretty knees; a silver hair-seal parka with hair-seal skates to match; and to keep warmer still-the chicest, sleekest flask, called Little Nipper, designed to fit on the sveltest hip and never make an unintended bulge. The response was enough to warm even a trout fisherman's clam my boots...