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...Basically, the EPA seems to have decided that a compromise on fine particles is better than no movement at all. The science that short-term exposure to fine particle pollution increases the risk of death and illness from asthma, heart attack and stroke is is so overwhelming that the agency had to take action on that front. But there is enough wiggle room in the long-term data that the agency felt it could leave the annual standards where they...
...Whitfield said. “And yet we as students are being asked to live in what I or anyone else would consider unsanitary conditions.” According to the CDC web site, the cockroach can be “an allergen source and an asthma trigger,” and can carry Salmonella and other viruses. Whitfield said that he plans to write a letter to the University calling for action. “You’re telling me that one summer you can’t close down Lowell or Eliot house and spray the entire...
...when the group converged in an Austin studio this spring along with several noted New Orleans names. While Ivan has settled in Austin, his father, Aaron Neville, who lost his home, is living in Nashville and cannot go home to his native city yet because he suffers from asthma...
...august Knickerbocker family had grown rich from generations of shrewd investments in real estate, banking, glass importing and even hardware. But in his youth--and for that matter in his adulthood--T.R. showed very little interest in adding to the family fortune. When Roosevelt was a toddler, his asthma began to overshadow everything he did. As he grew, Theodore was too "delicate" for school--until Harvard he was educated at home--and too weak to stand up to other boys. On doctor's orders his father Theodore Sr.--called Thee by everyone in the family--and his mother Martha, called...
...important to him. It proved to the world--and himself--that Roosevelt, a man who could talk very admiringly about war, had the strength and courage to fight in one. Although all his life, even when he was President, he continued to suffer on occasion from asthma he did not want the public to know of his illnesses. It didn't fit his self-image...