Word: hypothermia
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...starvation advances, the body tries to conserve energy by limiting all but the most vital processes. Cell division slows drastically. Even hair stops growing. Reduced fuel burning drives body temperature down; that, combined with the loss of insulating fat, can lead to death from hypothermia -- a threat on a cool Somalian evening. The shutting down of the intestines can lead to the paradox of death by diarrhea. Reduced production of white blood cells weakens the immune system, a kind of starvation-induced AIDS that turns diseases like measles into killers. Eventually the body begins burning muscle tissue wholesale: victims become...
Among the dangers they face flying at such low temperatures is hypothermia, which has been known to result in pilots' losing control of their planes...
...ABOUT THE TIME the sky-blue Macintosh screen begins looking like the color of a mountain climber dead of hypothermia. About the time I realize that my last "15-minute break" allowed me to go to Coffee Connection, run five miles and watch an entire college basketball game. About the time the fan in my hard drive makes me think that evil spirits in my brain are yelling at me. About the time I dream that Marion Barry reads my thesis about him, hates it, escapes from jail and is scouring Cambridge with a butcher knife looking...
...another patron, Sam Wink, but when a woman nearby tried to race off, he was distracted and fired at her, allowing Wink to flee. "It just seemed like slow motion, and he shot forever," Wink recalled. One woman survived by hiding in a freezer; she was later treated for hypothermia. Food preparer Mark Mathews, 19, escaped by hiding inside an industrial dishwasher. He was so frightened that he did not come out until the following...
...baby, after suffering from hypothermia, is now in stable condition. When news of his health reached the mother's neighbors, several of them clasped their chests and gave thanks to God. "The baby will never want for someone to look out for him," one of the women told New York Newsday. "He is blessed." It was as though surviving the maw of a trash chute would forever protect him from his own neighborhood...