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...long ago, Bolden's asthma might have kept her from competing or even coaching. But asthma specialists have learned so much in the past few years that they now believe they can keep most potentially fatal attacks at bay. They have found that allergies play a dual role in causing asthma to develop in the first place as well as in triggering individual episodes of wheezing. By studying families in which asthma appears to be inherited, scientists hope one day to discover the genes that predispose people to develop it. And by controlling the underlying irritation and inflammation...
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...others, are championing the biodiversity treaty, Scandinavian countries have imposed stiff taxes to discourage energy consumption, and Japan has sharply boosted its environmental aid to developing nations. At Reilly's press conference, one reporter impudently mentioned that Japan's pledge of $200 million to help clean up a single bay in Brazil was more than the $150 million in new money that the U.S. has offered for forest protection around the entire world...
...Ipanema. Those beaches have lost much of their appeal to tourists, because the ocean waters are polluted and because beachgoers are vulnerable to the crime wave that has overtaken Rio in recent years. The pollution problem is grave: some 400 tons of untreated sewage are dumped in Guanabara Bay every day. Indoor plumbing is a luxury in Rio's fetid hillside slums, and health officials are concerned that the cholera epidemic advancing across Latin America will soon descend...
...downtown expressway and preened the beachfront parks and promenades. Street children have been rounded up and placed in shelters, homeless migrants have been sent packing, and law enforcement has been beefed up. Officials have also started some ambitious environmental projects, chief among them the cleanup of Guanabara Bay. The project will cost $667 million, $450 million of it to be lent by the Inter-American Development Bank; it would be the largest environmental loan the bank has ever made. The plan includes the construction of six sewage-treatment plants and two solid-waste recycling plants and the reforestation...