Prolonged exposure to hotels' artifice could induce madness.
Before Gagarin, no-one knew for sure if a human could withstand the conditions in space, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow; some believed weightlessness would induce madness, that the G-forces on take off and re-entry would crush the body, and there was concern over the effects of radiation.
Some of these cacti can be readily found, like Ariocarpus retusus, a species the Tarahumara claim will induce madness and death when ingested by those with "impure heart".
But let's hope their kids will grow up to be well-adjusted bright young things - vets or pilots or what have you - unscarred by the Heat-induced madness of their mothers' line of work.
Fame-induced madness, or a defiant statement of self-ownership in the face of a runaway debut single that burdened her with the most famous juvenile locks in town?
It was as though the suddenremoval of the Saddam regime had induced a temporary madness.
Bowles had taken majoun, a jam made from cannabis, to write Port's death scene in The Sheltering Sky and in his second novel he has Dyer descend into Spanish Morocco and a madness induced in part by a "kif" haze.
At first the disturbances are minor, taking the form of static charges and cellphone disturbances ("Impact" seems to be BlackBerry-centric, so you're left to consider how the iPhone would hold up), but then people and submarines start to levitate, and the madness, induced by gravitational shifts, begins.
One video posted on YouTube shows the extent of shopping madness induced by sale prices and media hype.
