but for fire-fig being made of metal it o enter burning structures in any form of attire, butmost especially not in somet ed up like a kettle and made to ttempt to save ment, Deane tried it underer and found it error of t so muc, t nitrogen. Put t nitrogen istransformed into tiny bubbles t migrate into tissues. If too rapidly—as oo-quick ascent by a diver—trapped o fizz in exactly ttle of ciny blood vessels, depriving cells of oxygen, and causing pain so excruciating tsufferers are prone to bend double in agony—he bends.”
tional imeimmemorial but didn’t attract muctention in tern il teentury, and t at all (or at least not very andnot generally muc on riverbeds to facilitate truction of bridge piers. ten ended period ofificial pressure toms like tingling or itc an unpredictable fe more insistent pain in ts and occasionally collapsedin agony, sometimes never to get up again.
It puzzling. Sometimes o bed feeling fine, but imes t all. As relates a story concerning tors of a neunnel under tory banquet as tunnelneared completion. to ternation to fizz o tantly to fizziness, memorably enlivening tive process.
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A great deal of surviving at extremes is oo traordinaryfateam of Jot and J. B. S. andards ofBritisellectuals, tstandingly eccentric. to an aristocratic Scottis spent mostof ive modesty as a professor of p Oxford. -minded. Once after airs to cy o return and ime. ion o travel to Corno study grandson of t. ime, parodied oucist Edantamount in t Counter Point .
to diving o t intervals necessary to manage an ascentfrom t getting t erests ranged across tudying altitude sickness in climbers to tstroke in desertregions. icular interest in ts of toxic gas