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...asleep. But the word literally means a temporary cessation of breathing and it is practiced (on purpose) around the world by an international community of extreme athletes - a brotherhood that now includes magician and stuntman David Blaine. On the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 30, Blaine broke the world record by holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds - proving that just how temporary apnea can be is a question of training, endurance and will...
...Madam," once implied that suicide was cowardice but, in the end, she seems to have chosen that same path herself. "She wasn't going to jail, she told me that very clearly. She told me she would commit suicide," author Dan Moldea told TIME soon after news broke of her body being found in Tarpon Springs, Florida, an apparent suicide. Palfrey's body, along with a handwritten suicide note, was discovered by police in a storage area attached to her mother's mobile home. Palfrey contacted Moldea last year to provide her help writing a book. "She had done time...
...last drop in 1979, Mallory said she never had sex with Mailer when he was drinking.“Cowards need alcohol to make love,” Mallory said. “They might as well make love to the bottle.”Mallory said the couple broke up in 1992 over a dispute concerning an edit of one of Mallory’s pieces.“‘Gimme gimme. Gimme gimme another edit,’” Mallory recounted. “You don’t say ‘no?...
...with true tragedies and that's unfortunately a very difficult part of my job. But a huge amount of disappointments that people come to me with are the ones they're afraid to talk to their friends about, because it would sound trite. For example, "My boyfriend broke up with me and I thought we were going to get married." Or "I thought I would get pregnant easily and I can't." "I felt my husband would be different." "I thought my job would give me meaning, and it just gives me boredom." Because they feel guilty for coming...
...inning for Dartmouth forced the Crimson to take its second loss of the day. “We were mostly disappointed in our lack of offensive pressure,” Madick said. “We knew that we could do more against their pitching.”Harvard broke a scoreless tie in the top of the third when freshman Ellen Macadam singled to left with two outs and then stole second. Sophomore Lauren Murphy connected for a single that brought Macadam home. The next batter, sophomore Jen Francis, followed that up with a third straight hit, a double...