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...industrial and developing countries alike, and has also recently been linked to lung cancer. Here in Massachusetts, where five power plants burn thousands of tons of coal every year, the effects on surrounding communities are significant. A 2000 study by the Harvard School of Public Health Professors Jack Spengler and Jonathan Levy concluded that two local coal-fired power plants, one in Salem and one in Somerset, led directly to a combined 1,710 emergency room visits, 43,300 asthma attacks, and 298,000 daily incidents of upper respiratory symptoms per year...
Tales of O'Donnell's taut temper and bossy style--later reported in rancorous rehearsals for the Broadway version she is producing of the Boy George musical Taboo, scheduled to open this week--went public, further diminishing her likability quotient. Her LQ suffered another jolt last week when Cindy Spengler, G+J's chief marketing officer, testified that O'Donnell had called her a liar and added, "Liars get cancer." (Spengler is a breast-cancer survivor; Rosie later confirmed and apologized for the slur.) By the end, G+J had to be wondering, Why didn't we just start...
...Spengler, the other Harvard recipient, will receive the shared environment award for his work to raise public awareness of indoor air pollution...
...Spengler addressed the use of poor quality fuels in underdeveloped regions which lead to sick building syndrome and the poor air quality present in public housing...
...Spengler shares the award with Mario J. Molina, who shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the effects of chlorophorocarbons on the earth’s stratosphere...