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...Agency estimates that 90% of our time is spent indoors. According to Weschler, indoor pollution either seeps in from outside (such as particulate matter from car exhaust, ground-level ozone and noxious gases, like sulfur dioxide, which comes from fuel combustion and factories) or originates inside (tobacco smoke, cooking gas, vapors from paint). In general, concentrations of volatile organic compounds, like cleaning agents and pesticides, can sometimes be 10 times higher indoors than outdoors, says Weschler. With long-term exposure, these types of air pollutants can be linked to allergies and respiratory illness, or worse...
...money for the bridges to the state of Alaska, which plans to build them without a specific directive. So the problem isn't earmarks. The problem is that the interstate highway system is complete, and we haven't come up with a new vision for distributing America's gas-tax dollars. "We've lost our way," says Emil Frankel, an assistant transportation secretary for policy during Bush's first term. "We don't know what we're trying to do anymore. It's just a massive public works program, a great opportunity for everyone to fund their local projects...
...pace of reconstruction and how that effort was being ignored by the rest of America. From the boat tour we took of the waterways outside the city, where we saw firsthand how human activity was destroying the wetlands, to the plane ride that revealed how oil and gas canals had changed the ecology of the area, we discovered a city that is still vulnerable to disaster...
...conceded, however, that there had been problems with evacuation in the past. People trying to evacuate have had difficulty getting to gas stations and dealing with congested highways, Blendon said...
...date, most of the direct investments Chinese companies have made abroad have been relatively small, aimed principally at gaining access to key supplies of oil, gas and minerals in Africa and elsewhere. Much of this has gone largely unnoticed. Chinese companies, for example, quietly invested $4.2 billion in Russian companies last year. But some, of course, has been decidedly noticed. The country's investments in Sudan, which increased in early July when China National Petroleum Corp. said it would spend an additional $25 million developing an offshore field there, have become a global flash point given the carnage the Khartoum...