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USC study finds particulate matter in air pollution affects thyroid development in fetuses

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USC is situated in the Los Angeles region, home to historically severe urban smog, an ideal laboratory to study air pollution health effects and environmental change across time. Conversely, as air quality has improved due to regulations and technology innovations, scientists have been able to track improvements in children’s health.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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After all, what use was a screen that could show documents in multiple type styles and a network that could transmit them from place to place without some means of printing them efficiently? Even today, he said, he receives laser-printed documents from universities in which he can recognize the Dover typefaces.

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