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  • Today's shoot is on a frigid, oxygen-deprived Andes peak topped by a 45-foot statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking Bogota, Colombia.

    On the Set of the Burn Notice Prequel Movie 2011

  • Not being able to tap the public market is toxic for capital-hungry medical companies, says Kevin Larkin, CEO of TherOx, which develops devices to treat oxygen-deprived human tissue.

    Companies eager for IPOs feel thwarted by slow market 2009

  • She made an easy target, struggling exhausted and oxygen-deprived up the 18,753 feet (5,716 meters) high Nangpa la pass -- a common escape route for Tibetans.

    Rebecca Novick: Murder in the Himalayas: A Story that Had to be Told Rebecca Novick 2010

  • She made an easy target, struggling exhausted and oxygen-deprived up the 18,753 feet (5,716 meters) high Nangpa la pass -- a common escape route for Tibetans.

    Rebecca Novick: Murder in the Himalayas: A Story that Had to be Told Rebecca Novick 2010

  • Philip Howard's message regarding "The Public-Union Albatross" op-ed, Nov. 9 seems intuitively obvious, but it may be that the albatross is wrapped so tightly around the voters' necks that they are oxygen-deprived.

    Voters Still Carry Union Albatross 2011

  • The tiny bacteria whose job it is to decompose all that organic stuff need oxygen; when their workload increases, their demand for oxygen outpaces the supply, leading to oxygen-deprived rivers, on their way to becoming dead ones.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The tiny bacteria whose job it is to decompose all that organic stuff need oxygen; when their workload increases, their demand for oxygen outpaces the supply, leading to oxygen-deprived rivers, on their way to becoming dead ones.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • The tiny bacteria whose job it is to decompose all that organic stuff need oxygen; when their workload increases, their demand for oxygen outpaces the supply, leading to oxygen-deprived rivers, on their way to becoming dead ones.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • Not only have populations of crabs, fish and oysters been regularly depleted, oxygen-deprived "dead zones" show up in the summer months near the mouths of the Potomac, Rappahannock and York rivers.

    Is salvation for Chesapeake Bay finally at hand? 2010

  • CHRISTOPHER JOYCE: The dead zone is huge blob of oxygen-deprived water that forms in the northern Gulf almost every year.

    Massive 'Dead Zone' Threatens Gulf Marine Life 2010

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