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Known by various names around the world - including funky chicken, space monkey, sleeper hold and the blackout, choking or fainting game - the activity involves applying pressure to the neck to stop the blood flow to the brain and then releasing the pressure to create a temporary sense of euphoria. It isn't new: French medical books mention the scarf game as early as the 18th century, and deaths in Britain, Canada and the U.S. have occasionally made the headlines over the years. What is new - and frightening - is that teenagers are now uploading instructional videos to the Internet that glamorize...
...children are alone in their bedrooms," she says. "They're getting dizzy, and the great risk is that at any moment their hearts can stop." And when that happens, as Cochet knows all too well, a parent's heart stops...
...bomb," says Matador, a Canadian who asked to be referred to by his online name so as not to blend his real life with his second one. What he saw motivated him to organize a team of online superheroes to secure the camp, make patrols and recruit players to stop similar acts of vandalism. (Read: "U.K. Couple to Divorce over Affair on Second Life...
...recent discovery of potentially hazardous levels of arsenic in the soil—likely the remains of lead-based pesticides once used in orchards on the site—has brought the transaction to a momentary stop, according to the town’s Web site...
...that did not stop Cornell from netting two third period goals to come back from a 4-2 deficit entering the final frame...