Word: oxygenated
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Such a system would involve a fleet of ships and a chain of automatic sensing buoys, plus aerial photography and satellite observation. The system would be used to spot the source of pollutants like oil, mercury and lead. It would also monitor oxygen levels in the seas and "red tides," the abnormal growth of phytoplankton that can choke out other forms of marine life. Obviously, such a system will need the political support of nations that now exploit and degrade the seas...
...susceptibility to malaria in the 8% to 10% of U.S. Negroes who carry it. But in those (about 1%) actually harmed by it, periodic crises distort the normally spherical red blood cells into crescent-like ("sickle") structures, which then block the narrow capillaries. This deprives nearby tissues of needed oxygen and causes severe pain. The disease kills at least half its victims before the age of 20; only a handful live beyond 40, and most are crippled long before death...
Each year, 50,000 U.S. infants die soon after birth-at least 25,000 of them from respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Also called hyaline membrane disease, RDS is caused by the inability of an infant's lungs to extract oxygen from the air and pass carbon dioxide out of the body. Even when such babies (most of them premature) survive, they may suffer permanent brain damage...
...years were too short for what he had to do. Only his huge energy obscured the truth about how long, and how seriously he had been ill. For years he fought off migraine headaches, ulcers, asthma and emphysema-the latter two so debilitating that he had to keep oxygen at his bedside. Cancer was also an old enemy and, as it turned out, the final one. When he died last week at 75, the disease had so ravaged Cushing's 6-ft. frame that he had wasted from a robust 200 Ibs. to a mere...
...Smog. How could minute plants live in a cloud? Many of them, Parker decided, are large enough to act as nuclei for slowly condensing droplets of water-an essential ingredient for all earthly life. The tiny organisms also have an amazingly varied diet available even in unpolluted clouds: oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, butane and acetone. Such necessary minerals as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium could be transported to the clouds in airborne soil and dust particles...