After receiving a history degree from George Mason University, I co-founded Earlyman Technologies, LLC (EMT) a start-up incubator that focused on helping business leaders, inventors and entrepreneurs to breath life into their projects.

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Wipe out or even diminish ocean life and our very ability to breath is jeopardized.

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"In real life, people have morning breath, and you have to pay bills with them, and you argue about who's going to change the baby's diaper, " she said.

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My next memory involves being at the bottom of a Costa Rican river wondering which direction was up and holding my breath while I waited for my life-preserver to sort things out which it did.

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For other species, we are their spokespersons and it is up to us to acknowledge our indebtedness to them: to all of the soldiers that make our soil, our atmosphere, our rivers and seas and forests the life sustaining ecosystems that have given us our breath, our dreams, our hopes.

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People who have COPD can be more susceptible to such respiratory tract infections, and may experience exacerbations episodes of potentially life-threatening shortness of breath when they catch a cold or breath in air pollution or other irritants.

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