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    The serious harm caused by microscopic dust really made me wonder about diesel. You noted that the submicron-scale spheres in the lungs of a nonsmoking resident of Mexico City appeared to be diesel-exhaust particles. While Europeans worry about what will happen in 100 years from global warming, could they be killing themselves now with their […]

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  2. Earth

    Air Sickness

    Studies have begun showing subtle but substantial harmful effects in outwardly healthy people who regularly breathe hazy air.

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  3. Humans

    From the July 29, 1933, issue

    ON A SPARKLING SEA The photographer very likely took a more beautiful picture than he thought he would when, flying low over the Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Australia, he snapped the photograph that adorns the front cover of this week’s Science News Letter.