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When an ambulance arrived, the medical staff also tried to revive Ekperi, giving her oxygen, CPR, and medication. But they could not rescue her, Jean Baptiste said...
When an ambulance arrived, the medical staff tried to revive Ekperi, giving her oxygen, CPR, as well as drugs, but they could not rescue her either, Jean Baptiste, who was working with Ekperi for the summer at the National Institute for Health, said...
...doctor came into the room and asked Armstrong, "Have you ever used any performance-enhancing drugs?" Armstrong's response, according to Andreu: "Yes." Andreu says Armstrong listed for the doctor the banned drugs he had taken: growth hormone, cortisone, EPO (erythropoietin, which boosts endurance by raising the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity), steroids and testosterone...
...highlights the issue driving this election--one that may have an impact on Americans as well as on the campesinos in Puebla. Mexico's economy is still in the clutches of Big Business barons, who often pay subsistence wages, hog bank credit and investment capital and choke financial oxygen from the medium-size and small businesses that employ two-thirds of Mexico's workers. Half of Mexico's 106 million people live in poverty, yet the country also has 10 billionaires. And economists say chronic disparity is contributing to the U.S.'s population of illegal immigrants: since 2000, Mexican migration...
...fuse breaks the seal between them. The fuse can be activated remotely - as bombs are triggered by cell phones - breaking the seal, creating the gas, which is then released. Hydrogen cyanide gas is a blood agent, which means it poisons cells by preventing them from being able to utilize oxygen carried in the blood. Exposure leads to dizziness, nausea, weakness, loss of consciousness and convulsions. Breathing stops and death follows. (Since blood agents are carried through the respiratory system, a gas mask is the only protection needed. If one is exposed to blood agents, amyl nitrite provides an antidote...