Word: oxygenate
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...eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from Brooklyn who lives on cigar smoke instead of oxygen...
Penny Ann Holla way, 8, has the mental capacity of a three-month-old. She suffered brain damage when her oxygen supply was cut off during birth at Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego County. Two months ago, a jury awarded the girl $1.5 million to cover expenses and compensate her for pain and suffering. But Superior Court Judge Raul Rosado reasoned that Penny "has no ability to experience humiliation or anxiety. Money has no meaning for her." Pointing to testimony that Penny might survive only ten more years, and estimating that for $1,600 a month she could live...
...overworked muscles. Normally, as the body moves, its muscles contract and relax in quick succession. But if they are strained beyond their limit, they rebel. An overtaxed muscle suddenly goes into a sustained contraction, or spasm. It becomes a hard, knotty mass. The tiny blood vessels that bring it oxygen and nourishment and carry off wastes constrict. Soon some of the cells in the stricken muscle die, and the body sends out a distress signal in the form of a sharp pain...
...last 350 years, but most of the coal, like the other fuels, is in Siberia, where distance and climate make exploitation difficult. The coal is primarily low-grade, high-polluting lignite, and much of it is pyrophoric, that is to say, it can ignite spontaneously upon contact with oxygen. Still, Western analysts are baffled by the U.S.S.R.'s declining coal production. In 1979 output was 3 million tons less than in 1977 and 33 million tons under the goal set by the national economic plan...
...hours, they drifted in the center of the storms. Finally, over Rapid City, S. Dak., they broke into the clear, propelled eastward by winds that drove them up to 90 m.p.h. Then, as they crossed the Great Lakes, Maxie fell ill from lack of oxygen and too many cookies. Bundled in two sleeping bags against the subzero cold, Maxie switched to pure oxygen and recovered. As they neared the East Coast, they began to descend, too fast at first. Said Maxie: "The irony was that despite the danger, this was the nicest part of the flight. At about...