Word: swelled
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...dangerous as not drinking enough. Research showed that hydrating too much over the long haul--during a marathon, say, or a long-distance bike ride--dilutes the blood's salt content and can lead to hyponatremia. The body's cells, including brain cells, absorb the excess fluid and swell, and growing pressure in the skull can cause permanent damage or death. Hyponatremia is surprisingly common; in a study of 488 runners of the 2002 Boston Marathon, 13% were over-hydrated. Many of the symptoms of hyponatremia--nausea, dizziness, confusion, lethargy--mimic those of dehydration. The authors of the Boston study...
...photograph hangs above Waly's narrow bed, of his 2-year-old daughter, whom he has never met. The migrant tradition has continued into the next generation, fueled by the same force that kept his father rooted in France for decades - the need to send money home. Similar stories swell the immigrant population in Paris and other cities across France, and are multiplied millions of times across the world. Such tales are nothing new. The color TV in a remote Turkish farmstead and the concrete-walled house amid shacks of corrugated iron have often been paid for by absent family...
...down by demographics too. It’s all a bit over-the-top, and it’s unclear what purpose all this attention to detail serves, other than to confuse poor viewers like me. But I’ll tell you one thing, Santos would make a swell President, which is why I’ve decided to vote for him come Election Day. Wait, did Election Day already happen? Dammit...
...Last Monday, Yale announced that all tailgates will have to end before the start of the third quarter and that all drinking games and related paraphernalia will be banned. Smith said that in the past, without restrictions in place, parties held the night before the Game have tended to swell to uncontrollable size. Smith recalled “massive, roving parties that sort of move from college to college and leave a trail of destruction and damage and chaos in [their] wake,” and attributed this unruliness only partially to drunkenness. “Part...
...experienced performer, Gross’s stirring final recitation that “this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth” perfectly matched the culminating swell of orchestral music...