Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cancelled Dinner. That, however, was the end of the post-landing celebrations. All further activities were cancelled, including a steak and lobster dinner, and NASA doctors began treating the three men for a potentially serious lung problem. Unknown to the watching world, the glowing hot Apollo had begun filling with what the astronauts described as a "brownish-yellow gas" as it plunged through the 24,000-ft. level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft...
...apparently was highly corrosive nitrogen tetraoxide (N 2 O 4 ), used as an oxidizer (or combustion agent) in Apollo's small attitude-control thrusters. If it is inhaled, the gas may cause only slight pain and coughing at first; but later, as it works its way into the lung tissue, it can lead to burnlike damage called pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid. During their night aboard the carrier, the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort from coughing and were given cortisone in order to reduce lung inflammation. Next day when the carrier docked at Pearl Harbor, the three were...
...least 30 minutes of exercise a day. They find Morehouse's program preposterous. "It's an impossibility to develop total cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness in 30 minutes a week," says Dallas Physician Kenneth Cooper. His "aerobics" program, originally developed for the Air Force, aims at improving heart, lung and circulatory function through strenuous but graded exercises that promote the system's more efficient use of oxygen. The Morehouse book, Cooper complains, "is going to do a disservice to a person who wants to use exercise to practice preventive medicine...
MARIJUANA: NEW STUDY. Most U.S. researchers insist that marijuana use poses serious health hazards and have linked the drug with chromosomal and immunological defects, lung damage and interference with speech and memory. But a team of anthropologists from the New York City-based Research Institute for the Study of Man, which spent two years studying marijuana users on the Caribbean island of Jamaica, concluded that although the drug causes inefficiency on the job, even among farm laborers, it does no apparent physical harm. The researchers noted that Jamaicans who smoke ganja, as the powerful, locally grown marijuana is called, take...
...long in-hospital examinations of 30 Jamaicans who routinely smoke an average of seven marijuana cigarettes a day, doctors found that they were more likely than nonsmokers to exhibit hypoxia, a decrease of oxygen carried by the blood to the organs and tissues. But their heart rates, liver and lung functioning, coordination and memory were not significantly different from that of nonusers. Critics of the new study feel it did not look long or closely enough to find the genetic and other defects previously shown to be associated with marijuana; they still believe the drug is harmful...