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...reasons for such reactions vary considerably. Oxygen deprivation during surgery, leading to identifiable brain disturbances, explains only a handful of cases. Many problems appear to be emotional in origin. Most patients go into such operations with anxiety, sometimes depression over both the risks and the results. Those who survive face a painful awakening when the anesthetic wears off. They come to in the hospital's intensive care unit, surrounded by machinery to help them breathe and with tubes coming out of their noses, mouths and other orifices. Some resent this depersonalizing dependence upon technology and remain depressed until they...
...Common Market's Euratom research center in Ispra, near Milan, are working on a process that they say can cut the cost of hydrogen in half. This process subjects ordinary water to the 800° C. heat of a nuclear reactor. At such temperatures, the hydrogen and oxygen in the water begin to separate; each can then be combined with other chemicals and eventually extracted from them. Dr. Cesare Marchetti, head of Euratom's materials division, predicts: "By improving the technology through experience, we can push the costs of hydrogen fuel down by perhaps 5% to 10% annually...
...Cummings aware of the fact that their $3,500 plastic lawn cannot return oxygen to the atmosphere...
ERTS's infra-red scanners can perform more subtle detective work, since every object, living or inanimate, emits or reflects the various wave lengths of infra-red light with a different intensity. Chlorophyll, for instance, a key chemical involved in the production of oxygen by green plants, has a very distinctive infra-red "fingerprint." Thus, by the color variations in photos, future ERTS satellites could quickly detect any large-and possibly dangerous -change in the chlorophyll content of ocean plankton, a principal source of the world's oxygen supply. By similar "fingerprinting," ERTS and its successors could warn...
...expedition was split into rival factions-led, respectively, by the British and the Austrians. According to Britisher Don Whillans, the Austrians "were afraid of us getting into the lead." Said German Climber Michel Anderl caustically: "The precious contribution of the British was to help consume 16 bottles of oxygen and eat enormous quantities of food." Supplies seemed to be a considerable problem. Native Sherpas staged one brief strike when the climbers reached 17,550 ft. and threatened another one unless their demands for more food and equipment were met. While Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer left the expedition to get more supplies...