Word: oxygenate
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...last U.S. flight to the moon, Apollo 13, was aborted in mid-mission when an oxygen tank exploded...
...team of medical attendants, is always waiting on the side-lines, should anyone get hurt. There are bandages for sprains, and oxygen for the man whose wind has been knocked out of him. All this goes to bring about an age-old masculine dream; a tremendous war with only incidental suffering and sorrow. We can delight in the beauty of naked aggression without worrying about the consequences...
Such a system would involve a fleet of ships and a chain of automatic sensing buoys, plus aerial photography and satellite observation. The system would be used to spot the source of pollutants like oil, mercury and lead. It would also monitor oxygen levels in the seas and "red tides," the abnormal growth of phytoplankton that can choke out other forms of marine life. Obviously, such a system will need the political support of nations that now exploit and degrade the seas...
...susceptibility to malaria in the 8% to 10% of U.S. Negroes who carry it. But in those (about 1%) actually harmed by it, periodic crises distort the normally spherical red blood cells into crescent-like ("sickle") structures, which then block the narrow capillaries. This deprives nearby tissues of needed oxygen and causes severe pain. The disease kills at least half its victims before the age of 20; only a handful live beyond 40, and most are crippled long before death...
Each year, 50,000 U.S. infants die soon after birth-at least 25,000 of them from respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Also called hyaline membrane disease, RDS is caused by the inability of an infant's lungs to extract oxygen from the air and pass carbon dioxide out of the body. Even when such babies (most of them premature) survive, they may suffer permanent brain damage...