Word: vitale
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...submerged in cold water, our bodies instinctively prepare to conserve oxygen, much in the way that dolphins' and whales' bodies do when they dive. "Heart rate drops, blood pressure goes up and circulation gets redistributed," Potkin says. The body's focus becomes getting the oxygenated blood primarily to the vital organs - the brain and the heart - and not the extremities or abdomen...
...good start was vital to calm the nerves. Sophomore Sarah Harvey came out with three straight birdies and Harvard rolled to its historic victory...
...according to Powers, who will spend up to a week making the canvas for a piece. “The worst thing is making canvases,” he says. “You want to be out painting.” Nonetheless, he believes that the preparation is vital to the success of the painting, as is making the canvas an appropriate size for the piece instead of using whatever is already available. Once a canvas is ready, he will spend up to five weeks working on a painting, but prefers to paint in long sittings...
...desalinated to grow food, which actually rejuvenates its host soil a little with every crop: hemp. Planting the 30% of our planet's arable land that is already too desalinated to grow food with hemp for the next two decades would give us plenty of biofuel without interrupting vital food production. Robert James-Herbert, sydney...
...works of author Marisa L. Silver ’82 depicts these people.For Silver, a filmmaker-turned-writer, it is natural to explore this hidden, lonely side of California. The director of a number of motion pictures, including “Old Enough,” “Vital Signs,” and “He Said, She Said,” Silver has long been turning an inquisitive, critical eye on her surroundings. Her literary debut, a collection of short stories entitled “Babe in Paradise,” is situated in contemporary...