Word: oxygenator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kandang Kerbau Hospital, all found themselves reaching back to studies of ducks and seals-experiments that were in some cases nearly a century old. When those aquatic creatures swim below the surface, a "dive" reflex slows their heartbeats and contracts their peripheral arteries, thus concentrating the available oxygenated blood in the heart and brain. Most of the body's tissues then switch from an oxygen-burning system to one in which nutrients are "burned" without oxygen...
...physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted the car's spare tire, a $170 portable radio, a $10 box of candy, and the oxygen kit Ike uses when he gets short of breath...
...Oxygen is known to be scarce on Mars, but many forms of earthly life live without free oxygen, and Martian life may do the same. The ultraviolet light from the sun that freely penetrates the thin Martian atmosphere would probably kill earthly plants and animals, but Martian life may have found some means to protect itself...
...better possibility was the astronaut's breath. He might puff gently into sensing devices that would convey his commands to the AMU. But this system would not be accurate, and the extra puffing would waste oxygen and deposit undesirable moisture in the space suit's helmet...
Helpful Tourists. Despite its many drawbacks and few resources, Austria has prospered from ingenuity. Its nationalized steel industry developed the revolutionary L-D oxygen steelmaking process, from which 15 million tons of steel will be made this year all over the world; now it is building a $30 million L-D plant in Russia and is considering a deal to put up a rolling mill in North Korea. Austria has also signed a series of barter treaties with Russia and the satellites, manages to run a payments surplus because foreign tourists spend $523 million a year to enjoy its Alps...