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...then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
Ground-level ozone, the chief ingredient of smog, remains a major health hazard despite federal rules that limit the amount cities are permitted to allow in their air to no more than 0.12 parts per million. The pollutant inflames lung tissues and hampers breathing; it's especially dangerous for people who are exercising...
...state is the single biggest car market in the world, accounting for as much as 15% of U.S. sales. There is also the undeniable fact that Americans, particularly in the more polluted and congested urban areas, are driving themselves to death. As much as 80% of all urban smog and a quarter of the nation's total carbon dioxide are caused by engines burning fossil fuels...
...things new and fresh in America seemed to start there: everything from car loans to health clubs to Chino-Latino cuisine. For a while there were no limits: on growth, on space, on creativity, on wealth, on tolerance of the new and the foreign. Never mind the earthquakes, the smog, the religious cults. Those were just the shadows around an otherwise Utopian vision. And the new arrivals to the City of Angels and its palmy suburbs just kept on coming...
Despite its beneficial effects, tropospheric ozone has gained far more publicity for its role as a major contributor to air pollution and smog in Los Angeles and other large cities...