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