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Americans are 19% healthier now than in 1990, according to the United Health Foundation. Fewer people smoke; more are immunized. But before we drink to our health, keep in mind that as a nation, we're also 110% fatter, and 19% more of us have no health insurance. Plus, healthiness varies dramatically by state. In the map below, each state's score is based on assessments of 12 health determinants, such as child poverty, and six outcomes, such as infant mortality. This year--as in 10 past years--Minnesota is No. 1. The question, the authors ask: Now that...
...fire at the 17-story building at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square left one dead—Kevin Fidalgo, a 28-year-old employee of Massachusetts-based electric and gas utility NStar and UMass-Amherst footballer—800 evacuated, and at least 100 employees suffering from smoke inhalation. Fidalgo and a colleague were in the basement, working on a transformer when it exploded...
...fifth floor when the fire alarms went off. The office lights flickered, and he heard a rumble just as the alarms began to ring, he said. When he and about 100 other workers tried to escape through the stairwells, he said, they found them crowded with thick smoke...
...very scary,” said Clemens. “[We were] trapped, not being able to move. Finally somebody managed to get through one of the stairwells that had less smoke in it,...everyone was able to escape...
...owns the now smoke-charred building, which serves as an office for a few small technology firms and for the university...