In one unusual but revealing study, his researchers repeatedly immersed one side of people's bodies until it showed evidence of habituation, while keeping the other side warm -- and then turned them over and immersed the side that had never been in the cold water and found that there was still a significant reduction in their cold shock response.

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What this sampler is designed to convey is simply that for all the talk of the end of the Cold War and the reduction of tensions the world remains a very dangerous place for America and her interests.

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Have the 1990s, with the cold war over, seen a reduction in drug use?

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Clinton and Gore take credit for downsizing the federal government, but critics say much of the reduction was due to post-Cold War cuts in the military, not meaningful cuts in the bureaucracy.

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The net result is a significant reduction in both capital costs as well as operating costs for storage that is, a cold storage data center.

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