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It says patients were being subjected to a regime of close observation behind high fences and "airlocks", where patients sometimes faced "unsafe or abusive practices".

Mental health patients 'locked up in hospitals without legal authority' Randeep Ramesh 2010

Do you know why these double-door things are called airlocks? "

Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997

This would yield us at least four U.S. companies capable of flying NASA astronauts into space within three years and create a new American frontier in low Earth orbit with multiple space stations opening their airlocks for business and science, even as China struggles to loft its first small space station module.

Rick Tumlinson: The Senate Launch System - Destiny, Decision, and Disaster Rick Tumlinson 2011

Greater distance (and hence less potential for rescue), extended stays in low gravity (as opposed to microgravity), exposure to dust, development and use of surface hardware (habitats, spacesuits, airlocks, shielding, ISRU and ECLSS equipment, surface vehicles) will build the needed skills and knowledge we need to take on more ambitious goals in the Solar System.

Leroy Chiao Seeks Your Input - NASA Watch 2009

We also took out all the garbage and discards, scrubbed the toilet, and swept out the airlocks.

MDRS-88 sol 6: Life on Mars 2010

Emergency rescuers emphasised that the men were experienced miners who would have known how to find airlocks that could help them survive an accident.

Welsh mine flood: families gather in Rhos as rescue effort continues 2011

Those bound by the Lilith who have lost their pairing have been known to gouge out their eyes, or throw themselves out of airlocks.

Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Australis Yume | Station151 2010

After all, his own people gave him the heave-ho straight out of one of their airlocks.

Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

I tuned in to the episode that the newborn mother who finds out her husband is a Cylon gets jettisoned out of the airlocks and I was just left shaking my head.

Tube Bits for 05/05/2008 2008

In addition to new yeast, I tightened up the rest of my proverbial ship, and purchased some better airlocks to keep out those acetobacteria.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010