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...certain triggers (food, sleep patterns, stress, alcohol), no one's really sure what exactly causes the condition in the first place. The headaches can last hours - sometimes days - and often come with nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to sound and light, and, perhaps most strangely of all, distorted sensory perception, especially vision. Add to that a link with certain other blood conditions and neurological conditions, and it's no surprise that researchers are still perplexed about the headaches - or that patients seem to find treatment so hit-and-miss...
...Venice, Calif., the first warning signs are mild and almost pleasant--a giddy light-headedness that evolves into what he describes as a "happy series of energetic moments." Then for about 15 minutes his eyes play tricks on him, and a wall of shimmering light obscures his field of vision. "There's no pain at that point," says Schipper, who produces documentaries for the History Channel. "But once the shimmer starts, the countdown begins...
...grew older, if not wiser, and the golden image I had constructed frayed around the edges. It was not just that I gained a more realistic vision of the College, but that I came to recognize that the widely held image of Harvard as a profoundly unique institution—one possessed of some indescribable allure—was both inaccurate and pretentious...
...would have made such a policy possible. Sarkozy tried to turn the exchange to his advantage by intoning that the responsibilities of the presidency are "very heavy" and that using words like immorality is "not the way to respect one's adversary." Royal countered that she had a "different vision of political morality," one in which "words ought to be in line with actions...
...talent..., I respect what she did to get to where she is, and I bear no personal animosity toward her," said a smiling Sarkozy. Ségolène Royal offered no such platitudes. "This is a debate of ideas," she demurred, saying that she has "a different vision of France's future" than her opponent. At one point in the debate she boasted that she had beaucoup de sang-froid. No one's likely to disagree. But it may not matter much after Sunday's vote...