Word: smog
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...fleet of ambulances from the China-Japan Friendship Hospital started their engines last Monday and dispersed into Beijing's smog-filled traffic. Inside the vehicles was a deadly secret: 31 coughing, shivering hospital workers who had caught severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) from their patients. Riding alongside were nurses who recoiled at each contagious breath their dangerous charges exhaled. As the white vans took a leisurely tour of the Chinese capital, a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) walked into the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, hoping at last to gain a more accurate sense of the scope...
...advantage of technology and access but often hurriedly picked up unconfirmable reports, albeit with caveats. "It's a hazard of the electronic-journalism game," says msnbc president Erik Sorenson. "My staff is so sick of me saying the word attribution." There is always the fog of war, but like smog trapped by a heat inversion, it was compounded by hot air, as anchors vamped to fill time and pushed guests to speculate. If anything, the fog grew thicker as the bombing slowed. The allies killed Saddam - or did they? - and troops found chemical weapons that later, diabolically, morphed into pesticides...
...impact. It's simple math: SUVs are heavier than cars, so they take more gas to go the same distance. And burning more gas releases more garbage into the air. According to the liberal Union of Concerned Scientists, 2001-model SUVs, pickups and minivans emitted 2.4 times as much smog-forming nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons as cars and 1.4 times as much tailpipe carbon dioxide (a global-warming gas) as cars. The Natural Resources Defense Council says Americans use 5 billion more gallons of gas a year than they would if the balance between cars and light trucks were...
...occurred while processing this directive]In the time it takes me to get home?which could be anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour, depending on traffic?hundreds of unsuspecting tourists will enter similarly Faustian bargains with tuk-tuk drivers in all corners of the capital. A white-knuckle, smog-shrouded ride in one of these golf-carts-on-steroids should be on the top of any Bangkok tourist's checklist, up there with a visit to the Grand Palace, a kickboxing match at Lumpini Stadium, shopping at Chatuchak weekend market and a longtail-boat ride to the Temple...
...take advantage of those rare smog-free days, go for a stroll along the broad, grassy Rajpath avenue, New Delhi's Champs Elys?es. Featuring the President's residence with its ornamental lakes on either side and India Gate, it is on every tour of India's capital. But with distant views disappearing into the daytime haze, Rajpath can also be an uncomfortable reminder of how far New Delhi is from breathing easy. Early evening, however, when the congestion eases and the monuments are illuminated, is a joy. For a quick history lesson, head southeast to the 16th century Humayun...