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...lifts you up." Most world-class runners agree. In the long Norse summer evenings, the air at Bislett is still and cool, so that neither wind nor heat oppresses the competitors. And the frequent rain showers leave a quickening aura of freshness, almost as if there were more oxygen to be gulped down to infuse the muscles with sustained power. The track itself, a recently installed Rekortan surface, is as fast as a fine track should be, though it has no unique properties for generating speed. But the tight old stadium, with its narrow six-lane oval walled...
...John le Carré operative. Following the explosion, New Zealand investigators discovered a distinctive gray-and-black dinghy floating in the harbor near the wreck of the trawler. The dinghy, they found, was of a type not sold in New Zealand, though it is commonly used by the French navy. Oxygen tanks used by divers that were washed up on a nearby beach also bore French registration marks. "Why didn't they leave behind a Basque beret, a loaf of bread and a bottle of Beaujolais?" one DGSE spokesman asked...
...repeated applause, that reporters should voluntarily refrain from coverage that could boost terrorists' morale. In an obvious reference to last month's televised news conferences and interviews with American hostages in Beirut, Thatcher observed, "We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend...
...lengthy and complex manned voyage. At its closest point, Mars is 35 million miles from earth, or 160 times the distance of the moon. A hypothetical round trip, including a Mars layover, would take two to three years and require a craft that with the requisite fuel, oxygen, solid food and other "consumables" might weigh 500 tons. From ten to 20 shuttle trips would be needed just to ferry to the space station the pieces that would eventually be assembled into a Mars ship...
Once on Mars, crew members could extract the traces of water that still exist in the atmosphere; the water could even be broken into its constituent oxygen (for breathing) and hydrogen (for fuel). Given the planet's abundant supply of carbon dioxide, greenhouse gardening should be possible during subsequent, longer stays...