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...their pay-per-use costs of sending a text message from 10 cents to 20 cents over the past three years. That prompted Senator Herbert Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings on the matter in June...
...This is a major step forward in understanding the mechanism of how air pollution causes heart disease," says Brook. Now that we know how damaging polluted air can be on our hearts, clean air is not just a matter of the planet's health, but ours...
Brook's data suggest that particulates are more active players in heart problems than ozone, and that two different processes may be occurring as we inhale unclean air. First, the fine matter triggers changes in the central nervous system, causing a switch from the more controlled regulation of body processes to a more instinctive, automatic fight-or-flight response. This revs up the heartbeat and causes blood pressure to spike as the body may be responding to the presence of foreign, potentially dangerous particles in the air. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...nice thing is that Andre has taken [Rogers] under his wing,” Clark says. “No matter how talented you are coming in, at every level you move to there’s still a lot of things to learn...Andre realizes how important Brian is to the team and even for that matter to his own success...
...Jung's funeral, and reopening some traffic across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the continent - he has also reminded the world that getting North Korea to get rid of its nuclear program will be as difficult as ever. On Sept. 4, Pyongyang, via its state-run news agency, noted matter-of-factly that it was in the "last phase" of its uranium-enrichment program. It also added that it was open to "either sanctions or dialogue." (See pictures of Bill Clinton's rescue mission...