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When I crossed the continental divide to begin my illustrious college career a mere two years ago, I believed I had left behind the idyllic Golden State’s legion of woes—wildfires, floods, landslides, droughts, smog alerts, drive-by shootings, high speed car chases and, especially, earthquakes that too frequently register on the much-hallowed Richter scale...
ASTHMA ALERT When kids play hard, they breathe hard. And that's a problem in high-smog areas, according to a study of 3,500 schoolchildren in Southern California. Kids in those areas active in outdoor sports were three times as likely to develop asthma as their less active classmates. It has long been known that smog aggravates asthma, but this is the best evidence yet that smog can also cause it. Expect the finding to fan the debate over clean-air standards...
...training in the mayor's office," said Brown, who ran police departments in New York, Atlanta and Houston and served as Bill Clinton's drug czar before being elected mayor in 1997. But voters were more interested in knowing why he hadn't done more about gridlock and smog. Brown's credentials didn't keep him from a runoff with city councilman Orlando Sanchez, who was in rompers when Brown was walking a beat...
...LOCATION: Harvard’s located in Cambridge and Boston, beautiful New England towns with a rich history and plenty to offer young students. Penn’s campus is in Philadelphia, replete with smog, rats and people from New Jersey...
...leveling off, and the August-centered effect of those magical tax rebate checks hasn?t had a chance to show up on the radar screen. And GM?s other utterance this week - about their success with free-standing stationery hydrogen fuel cells - suddenly got people thinking about a smog-less, grid-less energy future. Or at least a promising new thing for manufacturing to manufacture...