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Asthma-inducing agents include dust mites, cockroaches, molds, rodents, pet dander and indoor air pollution. Other stimulants include cigarette smoke, exercise, pollen and hygiene, according to the HSPH website...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who has made CGIS one of his pet projects, stayed for three hours, making a personal statement to the council on Harvard’s need for the tunnel and then listening as a parade of local residents attacked the plan...
...columnists are allowed to have pet peeves, so here's one of mine. I can't abide the assumption that just because a country sits on top of natural resources, it is potentially rich. It is now conventional wisdom that the Arab economies are "failures" because they have wasted their oil wealth. After the recent death of Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan guerrilla leader, we were told that his nation should be one of the richest in Africa--all those diamonds and precious metals under the jungle...
...suppose it wouldn’t be fair for me to include specific pet peeves like my absolute distaste for Penelope Cruz ads or anything having to do with feminine hygiene in this general list of dos and don’ts. Instead, I’ll end with a final don’t that irks me most of all: the botched make-over. Correct me if I’m wrong, but make-overs are supposedto make the person being transformed better than they were at the outset. I feel like some stylists forget this important fact...
...follow the duo; they love Trey, but not Mitch. Renzi eventually hires actor William Shatner, who appears as himself, to teach Mitch how to be “more realistic” on TV. She even attempts to improve his image by renovating his apartment and buying him a pet...