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...ache, usually persistent, may radiate down the left shoulder and arm, and perhaps also affect the neck, jaw or back. The victim may become extremely short of breath, break into a cold sweat, feel weak and nauseated and possibly vomit. Along with these signs and symptoms, there may be palpitations. The face can turn a ghastly gray, and the patient may experience anxiety, even a sense of impending doom. Says Cardiologist Marshall Franklin of San Diego's Clairemont Community Hospital: "It is like nothing the patient has ever known before, a feeling that something cataclysmic is happening...
...last the whale was herded into the bay. Then, escorted by eleven boats it slowly headed out to sea. Two Coast Guard vessels followed it 4% miles into the Atlantic, watching it make three dives of about 3 min. apiece, blowing off its steamy breath each time. Then Physty was seen no more. It was the first time that a stranded sperm whale had ever been saved...
...major argument, but seem to be included simply for their originality or spice. For example. Fuller contradicts the Darwinian theory that simple organisms evolved into complex ones. Fuller speculates that "South Sea-atoll, lagoon-frolicking male and female human swimmers gradually inbred pairs of underwater swimmers who held their breath in their lungs for every-longer periods. and after many in-breedings of largest lungers and as many outbreedings of general adaptabilityorganic equipment, the progeny evolved into porpoises and later into whales." Such vignettes provide interesting reading, but are not well in tegrated with the focus of the book...
...doing. Harvard University points with pride to the fact that one of eight of its graduates is a C.E.O., and I take a deep breath and say, 'Does that mean that seven out of eight are failures...
Away we dashed. I fairly holding my breath and railing at the end of my seat. But the sensation of swift motion and aloftness, the keen air of the October morning's dawn, the unusualness and unexpectedness of that phase of my journey--it was intoxicating...