Word: adrenaline
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What was going on? To get to the bottom of it, Wittstein and his colleagues measured the levels of catecholamines--the family of stress hormones that includes adrenalin--that their patients were producing. In each case they found high levels of stress hormones--up to 34 times as great as normal levels and two to three times as great as those typically seen during severe heart attacks...
...given him martyrlike status among his supporters, but it also raises questions about whether his health will allow him to serve with sustained vigor. Though he insists it will, those kinds of doubts are dangerous in an unstable environment such as Ukraine. For weeks, Yushchenko has been sustained by adrenalin and the certainty of making history. "During these 17 days we have built a new country," he told a jubilant crowd in Kiev's Independence Square last Wednesday. Hours before, the Ukrainian parliament, with the backing of Kuchma, had passed a package of electoral and constitutional reforms that boosted Yushchenko...
...Minister Michael Heseltine and former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke - fronting their campaign and giving it a buzz. Most important, New Labour was a reinvented party that hadn't yet fully revealed itself. Full of zest, it opened the prospect of stimulating change to Britain's tired plitical scene, fuelling the adrenalin of journalists covering the campaign. All this unknown territory was stimulating stuff...
...would like to see mild violence and uncreative forms of slaughter." I'll tell you, although you know them already: there's a drive-by hanging, an in-bed strangulation, an over-the-radio death chase. The camera makes the requisite turns around corners, blood flies freely, but your adrenalin will get pumping only if you are an undemanding horror...
Harvard definitely stepped up its physical play last night. Whether this was an effort to compete with a Hockey East team or because it was the Beanpot and the adrenalin on both sides was pumping is irrelevant--the fact remains that both teams went at each others throats from the opening buzzer. The ice was literally strewn with bodies and sticks throughout the game...