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Age and gender affect soot's toxic impact

Except in young females, small blood vessels in rodents lost the ability to precisely regulate blood flow after exposure to an oily constituent of diesel soot.

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   In the first study of how weight may affect school attendance, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that overweight children are absent from school on average 20 percent more than their normal-weight peersThe study of more than a thousand 4th, 5th and 6th graders also determined that body mass index is as significant a factor in determining absenteeism from school as age, race, socioeconomic status and gender, formerly the four main predictors.
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3. Loss of hemlocks will affect water dynamics in southern Appalachian forests
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4. Food source threatened by carbon dioxide
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9. Teens get needed access to care with state health insurance
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