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Show 16 Aug. 26, 1993 Hilltop Times squadron does part to help keep Utah clean Hill stretch of Interoutside the gates of right Hill. A group of volunteers from the unit recently spent a hot July day tackling the job of beautifying But it wasn't all their strip of the crew began the dirty work day with free donuts and beverages from the unit's Top Four group. They also attended a safety briefing prior to hitting the highway. Two miles seems like a lot of area to cover when you have to pick up every soft drink can, cigarette pack and all the other surprises people have lost or thrown on the highway, according to MSgt. Josef N. . Swaney of the 729th. Swaney said thanks to the squa adopted a by Jay Joersz state Hilltop Times staff a local television commercial, actions of the mysterious, stranger and his faithful dog traveling Utah highhot rod, beckways in a souped-uon viewers to help keep Utah clean. Some Hill AFB organizations have taken heed and responded with enthusiasm, even to the point Dn p of adoption. Adoption of a highway, y is a Utah that is. Adopt-a-Highwa- Department of Transportation program aimed at cleaning up state highways. For instance, members of the 729th Air Control Squadron have two-mil- e 15 5. According to Swaney, more than 130 organizations across the state have adopted sections of Utah's normally goes like clockwork and in highways. To clean the highways as the entire area can be cleaned up as these groups do, the state well half a day. would have to hire 15 additional full-tim-e anyone who questions workers, he added. I what people get out of pick-Organizations who enter into a ing up trash along the highcontract with UDOT simply agree way, Swaney said the answer is to clean a section of highway at easy. least three times per year for two "The answer comes every time a years. Unfortunately, according to driver honks his car horn as he Swaney, trash starts accumulating passes each group of people cleanas soon as the crews finish cleaning. ing the highway," he said. "It's obSwaney said the state provides vious you are making a difference safety vests, trash bags and the that people care about in the local outline for the safety briefing prior community. to the cleanup. UDOT also posts in "You can also see the answer signs next to the adopted stretch of the faces of the folks who have highway identifying the adopting as work finished a hard morning's organization. Adopting a section of highway is they look back over the section said. he have only a phone call away. For those they just cleaned," "This is a job you can clearly see interested in getting their organizathe impact you've made every time tion involved, simply call John Ext. 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Instead of using perfluorocarbon to carry oxygen to the body in place of blood, they proposed that the fluid could be used to carry oxygen to the lungs in place of air. m Ir-in- 1 LINCOLN MERCURY snil HYUNDAI Volunteer for the American Red Cross Veterans Administration Voluntary Services. To test this, the researchers mimicked acute H American Red Cross L 1 f" respiratory failure in twelve sedated sheep, causing their airways to collapse. Half of the animals were treated with standard ventilators, while an artificial blood substi- the other half were placed on ventilators that provid ed the lungs with perfluo rocarbon that had been saturated with oxygen After two and a half . hours, the researchers examined each animal's lung tissue and measured how much oxygen had entered the blood. The results were very positive. Animals treated with perfluorocarbon re ceived two to three times as much oxygen as those animals that were ventilated with air. 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