Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operations were needed because massive radiation destroys vulnerable bone-marrow tissue. The vital substance acts as the body's production center for blood cells that carry oxygen, help to cause clotting and provide immunity against disease. Victims of damaged marrow can die within weeks of severe anemia, hemorrhaging and infection. To transplant the tissue, physicians use a syringe to draw out healthy marrow--usually from a donor's hipbone--and inject it into the patient's bloodstream. The marrow cells make their way naturally to the interior regions of bones. For the procedure to succeed, the tissue of the donor...
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...outside air rushed in, oxygen in the atmosphere would have fueled a raging fire in the graphite, which burns like coal when ignited, throwing a plume of volatile radioactive elements into the air. U.S. officials calculated that the particulates and gases surged nearly a mile high, where they were caught by prevailing winds and then blown over a wide swath to the northwest...
...reporters visited a residential area, a hospital and a morgue. On Tuesday evening a group of handpicked correspondents, mostly women, were driven to the children's hospital at Al Fatah University and shown two young boys, who were identified as sons of Colonel Gaddafi's. Both were lying under oxygen tents, strapped to their hospital beds. On one outing, a Libyan militiaman held a plastic bag and plucked from it a child's charred foot that had been severed at the ankle. Holding it up in the air, he said, "That's what superpowers...
When some oxygen masks remained jammed in the overhead compartments, a passenger used a pocket knife to pry them loose. Tom Kojis, 44, a Methodist pastor from Algoma, Wis., comforted his twelve-year-old son Jonathan, telling him, "We're not going to die. We still have things to do." Nancy Hauser, 37, of Los Angeles said later, "My feeling was we weren't going to make it. I saw this huge hole, and we were losing elevation fast...