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International travelers experience adverse cardiopulmonary health effects even after short stay in polluted cities

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Most were visiting family in cities with consistently high levels of air pollution, including Ahmedabad and New Delhi, India; Rawalpindi, Pakistan; and Xian, China. For the study, researchers analyzed 6 measurements of lung and heart health in 34 men and women traveling abroad for at least a week from the metropolitan New York City area.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S. After that, Hepburn continued to work on international projects in countries including Indonesia, Nepal, and Pakistan. Zahn, who was granted more than 20 U.S. Park authored or coauthored more than 1,200 research papers. in EE in 1990 from Stanford.

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