Word: oxygenating
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...doctor came into the room and asked Armstrong, "Have you ever used any performance-enhancing drugs?" Armstrong's response, according to Andreu: "Yes." Andreu says Armstrong listed for the doctor the banned drugs he had taken: growth hormone, cortisone, EPO (erythropoietin, which boosts endurance by raising the blood's oxygen-carrying capacity), steroids and testosterone...
...highlights the issue driving this election--one that may have an impact on Americans as well as on the campesinos in Puebla. Mexico's economy is still in the clutches of Big Business barons, who often pay subsistence wages, hog bank credit and investment capital and choke financial oxygen from the medium-size and small businesses that employ two-thirds of Mexico's workers. Half of Mexico's 106 million people live in poverty, yet the country also has 10 billionaires. And economists say chronic disparity is contributing to the U.S.'s population of illegal immigrants: since 2000, Mexican migration...
...fuse breaks the seal between them. The fuse can be activated remotely - as bombs are triggered by cell phones - breaking the seal, creating the gas, which is then released. Hydrogen cyanide gas is a blood agent, which means it poisons cells by preventing them from being able to utilize oxygen carried in the blood. Exposure leads to dizziness, nausea, weakness, loss of consciousness and convulsions. Breathing stops and death follows. (Since blood agents are carried through the respiratory system, a gas mask is the only protection needed. If one is exposed to blood agents, amyl nitrite provides an antidote...
...processes that allow the body to turn food and air into nourishment for individual cells also create by-products that amount to toxic wastes--highly reactive oxygen molecules known as free radicals that can combine with otherwise innocent substances and transform them into killers. Free radicals may be responsible in part for the genetic damage that leads to some cancers. And they also appear to be what makes LDL and triglycerides so dangerous. When a free radical combines with one of these fatty molecules, the altered cholesterol turns into a biochemical cannonball that ricochets around the bloodstream, damaging the inner...
...their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With the summit close at hand, the team saw a man shivering uncontrollably from the bitter cold and sitting three feet from a 10,000 foot precipice. The man, delusional from lack of oxygen, was pulling off his protective clothing. He was wearing no oxygen mask, no gloves, and no hat. “I bet you’re a bit surprised to see me here,” the man said quite lucidly, as the crew approached him, according to Osborne...