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...been brought in to record the leaders' pre-meeting pleasantries. Bush and Hu were in a cramped Waldorf Astoria suite that was blazing with studio lighting installed by the White House. "All right!" Bush told the translators and underlings with a sly smile. "Now we can get some oxygen in this room...
...everyone is so relaxed. "We are running dangerously short of oxygen," warns Roger King, chief executive of Britain's Road Haulage Association, which is lobbying the government for a fuel-tax break for truckers. European motorists and airline passengers are also feeling the effect. Moreover, at least some economies are showing signs of incipient inflation. Consumer prices in the U.S. rose 0.5% in July, the biggest rise in three months, and the annual rate of inflation in Britain rose to 2.3% in July, from 2% in June...
Eerie accounts from Greek fighter pilots of a co-pilot slumped over the Helios 737's controls before that crash have experts asking if the oxygen tanks provided for decompression emergencies were not filled--the kind of maintenance mistake that stricter oversight might help prevent. The solution, says aviation analyst John Nance, is "total standardization now--and more intolerance of those countries that fail to comply with it." --By Tim Padgett and Sally B. Donnelly
...make that case, the newspaper published the results of tests conducted since December 2004 by the French National Anti-Doping Laboratory. With the aim of fine-tuning their methodology for spotting EPO, which improves the blood's capacity to transport oxygen, researchers there tested frozen, anonymous urine samples from racers in the Tour de France of 1999, two years before any tests for EPO had been authorized for the tour. Twelve of the samples tested positive for EPO. L'Equipe, which is owned by the same organization that owns the Tour de France itself, matched the numbers of the samples...
...came from the so-called PAL ramp, a ridge of hand-sprayed foam designed to protect fuel lines from buffeting on takeoff ?EXTERNAL FUEL TANK The tank, 154 ft. (47 m) tall and 27.6 ft. (8.4 m) wide, carries 535,000 gal. (2 million liters) of frigid liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuel. It is covered by polyurethane-like foam that keeps the fuel cool, prevents ice from forming on the exterior and protects the tank from overheating during launch...