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...increase your blood pressure, and cause unhealthy changes in your blood vessels that last for hours and perhaps even days. The study measured the effect of air pollution in healthy people in two cities - Ann Arbor, Mich., and Toronto - where participants were exposed in the lab to the same amount of particulates and ozone that would be found near a local highway. People who breathed in polluted air registered higher blood-pressure readings a short time after exposure, compared with those who breathed filtered air, and their blood vessels showed impairment as long as 24 hours later. Such prolonged hypertension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Air Pollution Can Damage the Heart | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

Guess they weren't ready for summer vacation to end either. Doma employee Subash Khadka estimates they order roughly double the amount of alcohol during the school year. Imagine their surprise when a slew of students in search of alcohol turned up before Labor Day. You don't have to graph any supply and demand curves to figure out we were hit by an temporary liquor shortage...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: No Booze? Blame It On the Calendar Reform | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...been a reason to stay cautious in this market," he says, adding that he began raising cash two weeks ago in anticipation of a market decline. "It seems to me there's another phase we have to go through [in the financial crisis] and that has a huge amount of uncertainty surrounding it," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Corporate Insiders Selling Their Shares? | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...Brian Rogers added an assist to his résumé. “The underclassmen that played did very well,” Mitchell said. “While we do have a lot of upperclassmen playing on the field, all the underclassmen playing are contributing a fair amount to the team as well.” Prozeller started the scoring for Harvard, recording his first goal in crimson and white in the 21st minute of play. Prozeller found the net on Boston College fellow freshman Justin Luthy, shooting from five yards out on an Akpan assist. The Crimson...

Author: By Alexandra J. Mihalek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Emerges from Weekend Perfect With 2-0 Shutout of Crosstown Rival BC | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...According to union representatives within Harvard, the administration’s most recent budget-cut tactic has been to implement hour reductions among staff while still expecting essentially the same amount of work to be done in less time. Although hour reductions appear to be a compromise, and perhaps a better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Losing a Living Wage | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

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