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...that doesn't mean that every urban resident is at higher risk of heart disease. For most healthy people, the exposure to city air and transient changes in blood pressure isn't dangerous. But, says Brook, "it's plausible that if someone has underlying hypertension or coronary disease, then these changes in blood pressure and blood-vessel function might be exaggerated and might even trigger a heart attack. The levels at which we encounter these particles today is still dangerous to people who are unhealthy and at high risk." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...What does it mean to bear witness to something that we had not seen ourselves and don't have access to evidence of? " Skier says. "We are functioning as witnesses but at the same time acknowledging that we are incapable of doing that in any real...
...technology appears to lie at the cause of the problem, we cannot turn to technology as a solution. As mobile technology continues to improve, texting will likely be superseded by some distraction we have yet to discover. If we try to prevent texting accidents with electronic blocks, it could mean the start of an arms race we are unlikely...
...More than mere financial regulation, real responsibility on the part of bankers and those on Wall Street is needed, given the absurdity of inventions flowing from these banks. Just because something can be securitized does not mean that Wall Street ought to underwrite it. Financial engineering must be constructive and bear value not just to financial firms, but also to the inherent goals of the world of finance—providing credit and financing to firms and households. The industry’s latest ideas seem more like “Modest Proposals” than serious pitches, more tongue...
...best, according to diplomats in East Asia, it means the North's diplomatic price for any kind of agreement has probably gone up. At worst, it may mean what pessimists about the North have long been saying: that Pyongyang, under this regime, anyway, has no intention of ever giving up its nukes. The North's "strategic goal," says Park Hyong Joong of Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification, is to be accepted as a nuclear power...