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...thought my actual reason for being there would sound shallow: I want to learn to use a defibrillator because it's always supercool on "ER" when the doctor gets out the paddles and yells, "Clear!" Instead I say that I'm a new aunt and I don't want to kill my nephew. The instructor replies, "It's nice you're here, but next time you might want to sign up for Infant CPR." I joke that oh, my parents have one foot in the grave too, and then everyone looks sad and nods in sympathy...
Those who did survive the initial flooding would have come to envy the dead. Dying always seems more gruesome when it is in slow motion, and slow-motion submarine deaths are perversely compelling because they happen in shallow water within reach of rescuers. Men who have been trapped in stricken submarines say the crew of the Kursk would have suffered from cold as temperatures fell to 41[degrees]F and from severe headaches as levels of carbon dioxide rose in the smothering atmosphere. They would have suffered too from fear and hopelessness as rescuers repeatedly tried, and failed, to save...
...truck's bed, in a shallow pool of mud, a rather canine-looking man with a mud-caked beard grappled with a fellow in a two-piece bathing suit...
Suddenly it seems the once radical Robertson is offering a third way between the rigid order of the old world and the chaos of Napster, a chance to make money out of wide but shallow channels of online music and still make a buck or two selling CDs in stores. That should be music to the dinosaurs' ears...
With runners at first and third and one out, Northwestern's Tami Jones hit a shallow fly ball to left. Freshman Tiffany Whitton made a great catch, running in, scooping the ball up just inches off the ground...