Measuring blood pressure in both arms should be routine, says a University of Exeter study, because it is the difference between the arms that counts.

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‘Take both arms’ blood pressure’

John Wall and Andray Blatche trapped Philadelphia 76ers guard Evan Turner in the corner at one point in the Washington Wizards ’ preseason opener Friday night, frantically waving their arms and bouncing around until Wall eventually corralled the ball. Wall took off on a full sprint, split two defenders, then spotted JaVale McGee out ahead. He tossed an underhand pass at an impossible angle that even the ultra-athletic McGee could not catch. McGee slapped at the ball and it hit off the backboard for a turnover. Read full article > >

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Wizards vs. 76ers: In preseason opener, Washington unveils new uniforms but can’t hide struggles

John Wall and Andray Blatche trapped Philadelphia 76ers guard Evan Turner in the corner at one point in the Washington Wizards ’ preseason opener Friday night, frantically waving their arms and bouncing around until Wall eventually corralled the ball. Wall took off on a full sprint, split two defenders, then spotted JaVale McGee out ahead. He tossed an underhand pass at an impossible angle that even the ultra-athletic McGee could not catch. McGee slapped at the ball and it hit off the backboard for a turnover. Read full article > >

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Wizards vs. 76ers: In preseason opener, Washington unveils new uniforms but can’t hide struggles

Merrill Lynch was a weight when it first collapsed into the arms of Bank of America in 2008. Now the tables have turned.

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At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Profits but No Joy

  “We saw where Paul Revere hung out as a teenager, which was something new to learn. He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms,  uh, by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.” — Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, June 2   “You know what? I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere. Here is what Paul Revere did. He warned the Americans that the British were coming, the British were coming, and they were going to try to take our arms and we got to make sure that we were protecting ourselves and shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so that they couldn’t take it. But remember that the British had already been there, many soldiers for seven years in that area. And part of Paul Revere’s ride — and it wasn’t just one ride — he was a courier, he was a messenger. Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there. That, hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. He did warn the British. And in a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.” Read full article > >

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Sarah Palin’s midnight ride, twice over

Crossing your arms across your body relieves pain in the hands by confusing the brain, researchers find.

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Crossing your arms ‘stops pain’

It was a routine day at the Birmingham, England airport in 1990. The British Airways crew had gotten up early to prepare for a trip to Malaga, Spain. About 13 minutes into the flight, flight attendant Nigel Ogden walked into the cockpit to offer the captain Tim Lancaster and co-captain Alistair Atcheson a cup of tea. As he was walking out, the plane was rocked by an explosion. He turned around and this is what he saw, as he told it to the Sydney Morning Herald ‘s Julia Llewellyn Smith . I whipped round and saw the front windscreen had disappeared and Tim, the pilot, was going out through it. He had been sucked out of his seatbelt and all I could see were his legs. I jumped over the control column and grabbed him round his waist to avoid him going out completely. His shirt had been pulled off his back and his body was bent upwards, doubled over round the top of the aircraft. His legs were jammed forward, disconnecting the autopilot, and the flight door was resting on the controls, sending the plane hurtling down at nearly 650kmh through some of the most congested skies in the world. Everything was being sucked out of the aircraft: even an oxygen bottle that had been bolted down went flying and nearly knocked my head off. I was holding on for grim death but I could feel myself being sucked out, too. John rushed in behind me and saw me disappearing, so he grabbed my trouser belt to stop me slipping further, then wrapped the captain’s shoulder strap around me. Luckily, Alistair, the co-pilot, was still wearing his safety harness from take-off, otherwise he would have gone, too. The aircraft was losing height so quickly the pressure soon equalised and the wind started rushing in – at 630kmh and -17C. Paper was blowing round all over the place and it was impossible for Alistair to hear air-traffic control. We were spiralling down at 80 feet per second with no autopilot and no radio. Ogden could feel his arms being pulled out of their sockets. And because of the altitude, it was extremely cold. (Ogden would suffer frostbite from the flight.) The co-pilot managed to get the autopilot back on and the plane came back under their control. Nonetheless, the pilot was still stuck outside the window of the plane. I was still holding Tim, but my arms were getting weaker, and then he slipped. I thought I was going to lose him, but he ended up bent in a U-shape around the windows. His face was banging against the window with blood coming out of his nose and the side of his head, his arms were flailing and seemed about 6 feet [1.8 metres] long. Most terrifyingly, his eyes were wide open. I’ll never forget that sight as long as I live. I couldn’t hold on any more, so Simon strapped himself into the third pilot’s seat and hooked Tim’s feet over the back of the captain’s seat and held on to his ankles. One of the others said: “We’re going to have to let him go.” I said: “I’ll never do that.” I knew I wouldn’t be able to face his family, handing them a matchbox and saying: “This is what is left of your husband.” If we’d let go of his body, it might have got jammed in a wing or the engines. I left Simon hanging on to Tim and staggered back into the main cabin. For a moment, I just sat totally exhausted in a jump seat, my head in my hands, then Sue came up to me, very shaken. In front of all the passengers, I put my arms around her and whispered in her ear: “I think the Captain’s dead.” But then I said: “Come on, love, we’ve got a job to do.” Believe it or not, everything turned out OK. Eighteen minutes after the explosion, they were back safe on the ground. Some people were frostbitten and a little banged up, but they survived. This amazing anecdote got dredged up Business Insider’s Henry Blodget in the wake of the recent Southwest Airlines in-flight decompression incident .

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What to Do When Your Pilot Gets Sucked Out the Plane Window

Responding to newly launched air strikes by the U.S. and an international coalition, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi vowed to retaliate, threatening to “open the arms depots to defend Libya, its unity and sovereignty and might.” He called the…

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How does WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange get down? “Julian took up a lot of space when he danced-almost like a tribesman performing some kind of ritual,” his former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg says in a new book. “He’d spread his arms and gallop…

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Julian Assange’s Dance Moves

United Nations experts in Ivory Coast come under fire while trying to investigate reports of a violation of the arms embargo.

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Libya’s increasingly violent leader attempted to rally his loyalists again on Friday, appearing in Tripoli and promising to “crush any enemy” by opening up his arms arsenals to his supporters. Gaddafi backed his tough words with a series of violent…

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A mother wonders how this arms race began.

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Motherlode: Competition for Preschool

Understanding the arms race between germs and medicines

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Frisky bacteria

A new nuclear arms treaty with Russia cleared a key hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, advancing to a final vote with a margin that appeared to guarantee ratification and a major foreign-policy victory for President Obama.

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Arms pact has votes to pass in Senate

The nation’s top military officer appealed to the Senate on Monday to ratify a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia, as supporters attracted more Republican votes, making it increasingly likely that the pact would be approved.

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