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...CHOKED UP Offering the strongest evidence to date, a study of half a million people in 116 cities shows that long-term exposure to tiny soot particles from coal-burning power plants and diesel engines raises the risk of lung cancer some 20%--comparable to the effect of living with a smoker. What can you do? Try air filters--or get out of town...
...Cost: Diesel jeans $120. Louis Vuitton Evening Bag $495. For formal occasions, which are quite frequent at Harvard, men must have a tuxedo. Rental price for a tux for one evening ranges from $89.95 to $200 at Classic Tuxedo. But guys in demand need tuxes up to 10 times a semester, so most purchase their own, costing between $200 and $800. Tuxedo dry cleaning...
It’s astonishing to consider the audacity required to pull off their alleged feat. The stolen $100,000 breaks down to about $2000 a week, every month, for a year. It supposedly underwrote his addiction to drugs, her predilection for Diesel, and their dangerous penchant for social climbing. And it was all for naught: the Pudding has disowned them both, Theta girls whisper about kicking Pomey out of their sorority and Gomes’ close friends and roommates claim they “did not know him well...
...vehicles that are selling best in China are heavily polluting diesel three-wheelers and light trucks costing only $1,000 to $3,000 that farmers use to haul produce and other goods. Though these are banned in cities, rural sales have been surging. The segment is the only part of China's domestic auto industry that Beijing has allowed to develop along free-market lines, and it's the only one with a handful of supposedly profitable companies. One company even exports its light trucks to Cambodia. "Beijing wants to keep the countryside happy," says Columbia Business School professor...
Sure, it's clean, but can you get fries with it? Last month the U.S. government began fueling certain military vehicles and post office trucks with "biodiesel," an alternative to diesel fuel derived from vegetable oil. The fuel, which can reduce greenhouse emissions in diesel cars by as much as 78%, is nontoxic and can be made from surplus soybeans or leftover oil from the fryers of fast-food restaurants...