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...quent "smog alerts" during summer months; when an alert is issued, residents with heart or lung problems are warned to avoid unnecessary activity and mothers are told to keep small children indoors. Chicago officials issued warnings 15 times last summer when levels of ozone (a highly active form of oxygen produced, among other ways, by auto engines) rose to the point where they could cause eye and throat irritations. But the prime suspects in the high incidence of respiratory ailments in urban and industrial areas are sulfur dioxide and other pollutants given off by automobile tailpipes or industrial smokestacks...
CYANIDE L-PILLS. Carried by agents in World War II; blocks the absorption of oxygen by the body's cells, resulting in an agonizing death by asphyxiation...
Indeed, there is undisputed evidence that meditation lowers oxygen consumption and induces other physiological changes. But many researchers are uneasy about the claims made for TM in the book's plethora of graphs and charts; these suggest, among other things, that students do better in school after taking up TM, and that practitioners get along with their bosses and co-workers better than nonmeditators. Says Harvard Psychologist Gary Schwartz: "A lot of those charts are based on unpublished data which can be explained by many other reasons than those interpreted by the TM people...
...firm of Coloroll, Ltd., is producing plastic bags that will decompose naturally in five years. The secret: addition of clean, dry starch to plastic polymers. "By putting in the starch," explains Inventor Gerald J.C. Griffin, a teacher of plastics technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter. Because starch costs much less than polymer plastics, the process saves...
...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, to get at oxygen masks, stowed in a hard-to-reach spot behind their couches. Brand, whose mask fit poorly, passed out; he revived a minute or so later when Slayton and Stafford clapped the mask tightly over his face...