"But I'll only be taking cold showers afterward because you can't use hot water".
(It advocates skipping breakfast, taking cold baths and drinking black coffee).
Mr. Brunstad has been taking cold showers, to acclimate himself to chilly water.
It's like taking cold medicine when you have the West Nile virus.
He read Mao's biography closely and tried to imitate his example: taking cold showers in winter, reading philosophy, and pondering the big questions of politics and society, which he debated with a group of friends.
The Olympian Hazel Clark, America's top 800-meter runner at the 2000 Summer Games, has been sanctioned for taking cold medicine that contained a prohibited substance, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced yesterday in Colorado Springs.
Here she describes the expedition she went on with Oxfam ahead of next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen, and why, in a bid to be more green, she's started taking cold showers.
(I was especially touched by the bookshop owner in Maine who offered to replace some of the books I had lost and another reader who tried to locate a place for us to stay when Marsha and I were taking cold showers in the daycare center where we first slept upon returning to New Orleans).
