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...First-year coach Tom Williams has a battle at quarterback on his hands. Junior Brook Hart, who started five games last year, is the incumbent, but sophomore transfer Patrick Witt has been seeing a lot of preseason action as well. Whoever earns the job will have some familiar faces at receiver, as the top three targets are all back. The Bulldogs also lost several key players from the defensive unit, which was tops in the Ivies with just 10.5 points allowed per game...
...This is a major step forward in understanding the mechanism of how air pollution causes heart disease," says Brook. Now that we know how damaging polluted air can be on our hearts, clean air is not just a matter of the planet's health, but ours...
...that doesn't mean that every urban resident is at higher risk of heart disease. For most healthy people, the exposure to city air and transient changes in blood pressure isn't dangerous. But, says Brook, "it's plausible that if someone has underlying hypertension or coronary disease, then these changes in blood pressure and blood-vessel function might be exaggerated and might even trigger a heart attack. The levels at which we encounter these particles today is still dangerous to people who are unhealthy and at high risk." (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...average North American city contains about 14 micrograms of particles per cubic meter of air - a vast improvement, thanks to clear-air laws, over the amounts found more than a decade ago. Brook's team studied much higher exposures to particulates, in the order of 150 micrograms per cubic meter, but notes that on many days, cities such as Los Angeles and Pittsburgh and Detroit often reach these levels. (The Environmental Protection Agency deems anything between 151 and 200 micrograms per cubic meter to be unhealthy.) But it's hard for the average city denizen to know when particulate levels...
...turned out to be right away. Midway through the first half of the Crimson’s season opener against Stony Brook on Friday, Harvard coach Jamie Clark sent Rogers into the game. The Seawolves would score shortly after to go up 1-0, but the Crimson’s new striker had an answer just minutes later. Receiving a nifty pass from classmate Scott Prozeller, Rogers blazed past the Stony Brook defenders on a breakaway and lofted a shot into the top left corner to tie the score and announce his arrival on the collegiate soccer scene...