SCIENTISTS COP AN ALTITUDE CHANCE TO STUDY EFFECTS ON HUMANS TAKES BREATH AWAY AT NEW CU CENTER.(City Desk/Local) From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: December 17, 2002| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2002 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Bill Scanlon

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Coloradans breathe in great buckets of air - 2 1/2 gallons a minute.

Every two years, they inhale the equivalent of a Goodyear blimp more air than their flatland cousins.

If they didn't, they'd fall sick, move like slugs and give birth to 4-pound babies. Many would die.

At a mile high along the Front Range, at 10,000 feet in ski country, at 14,000 feet on top of the state's 54 highest peaks, there's a lot less air pressure and fewer oxygen molecules.

This means that if Coloradans hadn't learned to breathe so ...

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