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Indoor pollution can play a powerful role in urban settings. Many city dwellers live in damp, humid apartments where cockroaches and mold spores as well as dust mites can trigger allergic responses. Even if these people realize that such conditions are conducive to asthma, they may not be able to change their circumstances...
...marks the end of the most enduring business-labor armistice in Europe, a social contract that allowed Germany to achieve its postwar miracle of industrial prosperity. Perhaps that compact of mutual benefit can be restored eventually. Nevertheless, the size of the wage hikes resulting from the strike will damp the energy of Europe's economic powerhouse at the , critical moment when it is needed to pull the Continent together. Germany, the "Paymaster of Maastricht," whose Bundesbank anchors the European monetary system that will be unified under that treaty's ambitious integration plans, is certainly headed for deep debt, maybe even...
...damp subterranean basement which was their prison cell caused the two to become severely ill and Eli is said to have contracted tuberculosis. Last May, in a closed trial, the brothers were officially charged with "illegally traveling to enemy-occupied territory" and sentenced to six and one-half years in prison, where they remain to this...
...Volga River, near the city of Yaroslavl. In fact, Venyamin, who prefers not to give his last name, cannot scrape a living out of his small landholding. He works as a ship chandler to support his wife Antonina, her mother and two young sons. They also have damp earthen cellars beneath their wooden cottage to store their winter stash: 15 sacks of potatoes, two barrels of salted cabbage, heaps of onions and carrots, five huge jars of pickles and 40 quarts of fruit preserves...
...project is Gilbert Fowler, now 80. For three decades, from 1938 to 1969, Fowler worked at Mount Weather, helping both to dig the original mine and to complete its transformation into the secret complex. Crews worked around the clock for three years, blasting and excavating in a damp but constant temperature of 52 degrees F. Fowler was foreman of one of the three 40-man shifts. "That was some rough, tough, dirty work," he recalls. Between 1953 and 1969, Fowler witnessed a marvel of engineering, working first for the Bureau of Mines and later for the Army Corps of Engineers...