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...glassed-in display "for those who like to see the wheels go round." Harriss admits that such an urban transformation would take a little imagination and a lot of money. But the roof gardens would not only be a pleasant place to eat lunch; their greenery would also "exhale" oxygen, and so help to improve air quality...
...symbol of world-wide pollution." During one smoggy week in July, over 8,000 people were treated in Tokyo hospitals for severe eye and skin irritation and other pollution-induced ailments. Tokyo traffic policemen will not stand at busy cross-roads longer than 30 minutes, and 40 junctions have oxygen machines available. Most of Japan's gasoline derives from Middle Eastern oil, which contains particularly large quantities of pollutants...
...covering only, quite thin when compared with the bulk of the globe as a whole. It cannot be treated as a bottomless sewer, capable of absorbing any amount of pollution. In fact, says Piccard, "Phytoplankton, the primitive plant life that generates most of the earth's oxygen, is surface matter. It absorbs dirt and acts as a sort of pollution filter. Thus all you need to knock out is the surface phytoplankton, and the entire marine life cycle is fatally disrupted." That disruption is accelerating logarithmically. At one Baltic measuring station, Environmentalist Barry Commoner points out, the oxygen content...
Below Normal. Benson, an internist and cardiologist specializing in hypertension, became interested in the effects of transcendental meditation (TM) while investigating ways to modify high blood pressure. Knowing that the body prepares itself for "fight or flight" by increasing its oxygen consumption, blood pressure, heart rate and secretion of the hormone epinephrine, he theorized that it might be possible to reduce these metabolic factors below their normal rate. Eventually, he and his collaborators conditioned monkeys to lower their blood pressure in order to avoid a slight electrical shock. He then achieved the same result in human volunteers by using...
...Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, announced their success after three years of experiments. They emphasized that they had built on the pioneering studies of Makio Murayama of the National Institutes of Health. Murayama observed that abnormal cells, which carry sickle-producing hemoglobin S, gel at normal body temperature when oxygen content is reduced, then return to normal...