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...that humans also have this protection. The reflex is triggered when frigid water splashes over the forehead and nose; nerves signal the brain to divert oxygen-rich blood from the limbs to the heart and brain. An even more important defense against brain damage is a phenomenon known as sub mersion hypothermia: the extreme cold of the surrounding water, and of water breathed into the lungs, cools the body (to about 85° F in Jimmy's case), slowing down the metabolic rate and thus reducing the brain's oxygen requirements. Says Pediatric Neurosurgeon David McLone, of Children...
Such superpower cat-and-mouse games are common at sea, but the latest encounter was a bit too close for comfort. Had the submarine come a few inches closer to the surface, there might have been a catastrophic collision. Escort ships following the Kitty Hawk had monitored the sub for several days but apparently broke off contact, and the Soviets managed to get to the aircraft carrier undetected. U.S. officials explained that there is little they can do in peacetime to prevent a Soviet vessel from going where it chooses...
...granting the squad varsity status, Harvard became only the fourth school in the nation with a women's varsity water polo team to call its own. The other three are in California, although Princeton has a sub-varsity team, the Tiger version of level-two status...
...programs, for children, and youth employment programs. He cancelled the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) which included major youth job programs while youth unemployment was growing; he tried to have child labor regulations relaxed to allow employers to demand longer hours under worse conditions, he campaigned for a sub-minimum wage for young people. And he tried to eliminate the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, and finally reduced its funds by 30 percent...
...beneath the painted sea on painted sticks, is also done from a toy. As a document of catastrophe, the scene is far from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane, the liner and the sub are sso toylike carries one back to the I mock battles of the nursery, to the child's delight in constructing harmless miniature wrecks that dis charge the aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport...