--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@... wrote: > > Maybe she felt suffocated by you?? Hey, its possible - I've lived plenty of > places with dirty air, including daily exposure to DDT when younger, and > suffered no ill health as a result - used to enjoy long distance running > after that. Just sayin'
Big tanker trucks in my neighborhood outside of Chicago used to roll through the quiet suburban streets in the evenings back in the early '60's fogging the streets with plumes of DDT and our favorite pastime as children was to follow these trucks pedaling our bikes like mad playing in the clouds of pesticide. They were rolling banks of poisonous fog that looked so cool to us. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > I have lived in only one of the cities in this chart, Paris. And, sadly, > > as much as I love the city of Paris, I have to agree with this study's > > assessment -- despite the Good Intentions and Actual Laws Enacted of the > > city's Gay Green Mayor, Paris is fuckin' polluted. I am fortunately not > > hideously badly affected by pollution, but my best friend, with whom I > > shared a nice apartment there, was not. She spent her years in Paris > > fighting a multitude of respiratory ailments that she attributed to > > breathing the air of the City Of Lights. > > > > And yet. We've never had to deal with *these* cities: > > > > [531] > > > > The full article is on The Economist, at: > > http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/01/daily-chart-11?fsrc\ > > =rss > > > c=rss> > > >
