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Stored Sunlight. Scientists have long known that sunlight striking the atmosphere 60 miles above the earth breaks two-atom oxygen molecules (62) into single oxygen atoms. Normally the single atoms recombine when they come into contact with nitric oxide as a catalyst. Since there is only a tiny trace of this gas in the high atmosphere, they recombine slowly, releasing enough energy in the process to produce a hardly perceptible glow in the night...
...mechanism of leukemia, cancer's blood brother. The biggest claim was filed by Nobelman Otto Warburg, head of Berlin's famed Max Planck Institute for Cell Physiology. Said Warburg, as translated in Science: ¶ The cancer process begins when cells are injured by being starved of oxygen...
...This injury is irreversible. It kills some cells, but others survive, and these survivors learn to nourish themselves in an abnormal way. Instead of getting energy by "breathing" oxygen, they get it by fermentation. Though maimed, they multiply, and pass on their abnormal metabolism to their offspring...
...recognized "causes" of cancer, e.g., chemicals, X rays, viruses, are of secondary importance because they are merely responsible for the original injury to cells by depriving them of oxygen. This deprivation is the one basic cause of the disease...
...break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen...