Word: oxygenation
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...board Mir, to breathe is a blessing and to drink water is a luxury. We all know about the oxygen candles they've had to light for the last week, but now even the good old H2O on the battered Russian space station is drying up. No more than two-months' worth is left; perhaps as little as six weeks remains. But NASA is riding to the rescue: the Shuttle will ride up there in September, filled to the brim with aquatic sustenance. It may not be Evian, but the Russians should be grateful. Who knows, by then they might...
...water," orders Meyer. This is the scary part. The shark, having been manhandled and disoriented, may be too groggy to swim away, and unlike other fish, most species of sharks must swim constantly to keep oxygen-rich water flowing over their gills. Someone has to be ready in case it needs help getting restarted. And to my surprise and fear--the image of those teeth is still very clear in my mind--I have been elected. I slip over the side. Meyer unbinds the captive, and the huge fish and I are floating free in the crystalline blue water. This...
CHARGED. AMORET POWELL, 24; with first-degree murder, after her heroin-laced breast milk allegedly led to her seven-week-old daughter's death from oxygen deprivation; in Tucson, Ariz. The baby's father was also charged...
...cavalry has arrived, but they're much less use than we thought. The two-man rescue team of Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov finally docked with Mir this afternoon. It turns out, however, that they can't do anything to fix the crippled space station's oxygen generators...
...Apparently they weren't carrying the required equipment: a special air supply pipe, which will arrive only in the fall. Until then, Mir's crew will have to keep lighting oxygen candles in order to breathe. In the meantime, they'll be able to console themselves with the one thing the cosmonauts did bring: souvenirs for everyone...