Success For All. Eliot Cohen, a professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, is quoted in a Washington Post story on Colin Powell. In a story in The Washington Post on what happens to people who leave welfare, Hopkins Professor Robert Moffitt and his research in this area is quoted. A study of airborne particulates in urban areas across the United States by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health has found links between the dust and soot and between 20 and 200 deaths each day. The study received widespread publicity.
Elderly people are the most frequently harmed.
For years, researchers have known that microscopic particles can lodge deep in the lungs. They have known, as well, that high levels of particles in the air are associated with respiratory illness, heart attacks and premature deaths. Prism is the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education. No one interviewed denies this claim. I tend to be very fast.