Word: oxygenates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them, Andrew Puopolo '77, suffered extensive brain damage from a lack of oxygen after he was stabbed. After a 31-day coma, the star defensive back died of cardiac arrest...
...Force isn't the only service with embarrassing accidents, Diehl notes. During a 1989 flight by two Navy F-14s, the two crewmen aboard a Tomcat "removed their flight suits, helmets and oxygen masks in an apparent attempt to 'moon' the crew of the other aircraft. Unfortunately, this 'college-boy' prank proved fatal when they passed out" and plummeted into the Arizona desert...
...Nelson, who had to climb over corpses to get to her. "She was completely covered in rubble, twisted metal framing and electrical conduit of about two inches in diameter. She seemed to be wrapped around a metal chair." It took three hours to extract Brandy, while Nelson gave her oxygen and cheered her along with small talk. "I told her she was being treated by the best-looking surgeon in Oklahoma," he said. "Stuff like that...
...appeals court overturned an Environmental Protection Agency regulation requiring that 30 percent of cleaner-burning gas be made up with ethanol, a corn-based oxygen additive that allows fuel to burn with less pollution. Ethanol is considered a more environmentally friendly product than alternative oxygenates butTIME science writer Eugene Lindensays, "This is not an anti-environmental ruling. It only challenges the EPA's right to dictate how those goals are achieved." Farmers had estimated that the required level of ethanol use would bring them up to $1.5 billion, but Linden suggests that there are other ways the government can encourage...
...Stark, a retired cabbie, has a smoking habit that cost taxpayers more than $20,000 last year, and this year the meter is still running. The 53-year-old Miami resident smoked three packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this unbelievable...