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Once the immediate onslaught of pollution is gone, blood pressure drops back down. But the damaging effects persist. Particulates can lodge deep in the lungs, where they activate another process - inflammation, which kicks in over the 24 hours after exposure. The inflammatory response can stiffen blood vessels and cause longer-term damage to blood-vessel flexibility and their ability to absorb changes in blood flow from the heart. Weakened blood vessels can increase the risk of heart disease or stroke...
...think that your lifelong relationship with food prepared you at all for your role as a restaurant critic? Or did it work against you? I think a little bit of both. You can't do this job without loving food in a deep and expansive way. My relationship with food was a love-hate relationship. I hated my inability to control my intake and I hated what food would do to my body, but the love part was real and deep. My family taught me that food was worth caring about and sweating over. I still believe that...
...anonymously at all? It's going to get harder and harder as the years go by because of the advance of technology. It's easier for people to take pictures and it's easier to message them around. There's no way that a critic wouldn't have a deep digital footprint on the Internet. Everybody does...
...this season's firefighting in California comes just as the state has made vast and deep cuts in nearly all services to balance its books. Can California afford to fight fires given its budget woes? And when does the federal government step in? (What things should you save if your home is threatened by fire...
...truth, it is hard to think of any industrial society that in its essentials is less like the U.S. than Japan. Yes, Commodore Matthew Perry's black ships opened up Japan to trade more than 150 years ago. Yes, Japan plays baseball. But Japan is a nation with very deep cultural roots and habits - in everything from food, art, style, religion, the expected role of women and children, and so on - few of which have any point of contact with modern American mores...