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...children in the study are participants in a broader long-term research project, begun in 1998, that follows them from shortly before birth to age 11. To determine prenatal exposure to PAHs and other pollutants, mothers of these children wore special backpacks containing air-sampling equipment for 48 hours during their third trimester of pregnancy, capturing both indoor and outdoor air quality. Based on the results, they were divided into high-PAH-exposure and low-exposure groups. The mothers were healthy, nonsmoking black and Dominican-American women, ages 18 to 35, living in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx...
...power sharing as a means of keeping losing parties in power. In a recent interview, he said: "If a ruling party thinks it's likely to lose, and then uses its position as a ruling party to manipulate the outcome of the election so that it can extend its term in power, [it is] not the way to go ? this power-sharing thing is a bad precedent for the continent." Especially when it means more of the same...
Harvard undergoes a number of subtle changes during the summer: There’s a little more sunshine, a few less people, and a whole lot more smiling. As a result, summer school students seem to relish time outdoors a bit more than their term-time counterparts, which has led to another quiet change in campus life—the resurgence of intramurals...
With kickball and three-on-three basketball remaining on the tournament agenda, it appears likely that excitement for summer IMs will carry through the term...
...course, summer champions have also been known to receive bounties of CVS candy—another trick well worth noting for term-time organizers...