Word: oxygenate
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FIGHTING FOR OXYGEN in the jam-packed aisles of the Coop one fine September day, you will curse out loud at the thought of paying $22.50 for a book your professor wrote 15 years ago and still requires for his course. "Cripes," you will mutter, imagining the seedy old codger shuffling into the store that evening and emptying the day's receipts into the pockets of his coffee-stained tweed blazer...
...houses," to make us long for the squalid city at the end of the line. We have been innundated with "the whine and hiss of traffic" and have breathed so much of the thin mountain air that gives "the sky an extra vibrant richness" that we are gasping for oxygen. The book, like the journey, has its grueling stretches...
What was a serious scientist to make of such findings? Could the recollections be nothing more than dreams or hallucinations induced, perhaps, by drugs, lack of oxygen or brain seizures? Could they have been triggered by beta-endorphin, the body's naturally occurring opiate, which, Biologist-Author Lewis Thomas has suggested, may be released at the moment of death to "ensure that dying is a painless and conceivably pleasant experience...
Sabom does not think so. As evidence, he cites patients who had extremely sharp autoscopic memories. They were often able to describe the minutiae of their own cardiopulmonary resuscitation: readings on a monitor, the color of an oxygen mask, the number of electric shocks administered, the exact position of doctors around the table and what they talked about (in one case, golf). These memories, Sabom found, conformed precisely with doctors' accounts. Was it possible that some chronic cardiac patients were simply familiar enough with CPR procedures (from experience and television) to fantasize accurately about what took place? Sabom...
...major problem that has been solved is the stagnation and oxygen depletion of a layer of slat water in the river that lies beneath a layer of lighter fresh water. A $700,000 system of six bubblers installed three years ago by the MDC and the Environmental Protection Agency now pumps air into the deepest part of the basin to mix and oxygenate the water, Ferullo said...