May 14, 2013
by MoreRecycling
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Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Declines in smoking among youths were observed from the late 1990s. “However, limited information exists on trends in smokeless tobacco use among U.S. youths,”… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 2, 2013
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The new feature of the antidepressant drugs of the 1990s was that they had milder side-effects than their predecessors. Combined with aggressive marketing, this meant that annual sales in Sweden increased from just under EUR 18 million to over EUR 100 … Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 1, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I hesitate to write yet another article about bringing “smart growth” – the combination of ideas born in the 1990s to counter suburban sprawl &nd… Continue reading
April 19, 2013
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A new global-scale modeling study that takes into account nitrogen — a key nutrient for plants — estimates that carbon emissions from human activities on land were 40 percent higher in the 1990s than in studies that did not account for nitrogen. Plan… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 12, 2013
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The mortality rate for men in same-sex marriages has dropped markedly since the 1990s, according to a Danish study. However, same-sex married women have emerged as the group of women with the highest, and in recent years, even further increasing mortal… Continue reading
Share on FacebookFebruary 4, 2013
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New York City experienced a historic decline in crime rates during the 1990s, but it was not due to the implementation of CompStat or enhanced enforcement of misdemeanor offenses, according to a new analysis. Continue reading
Share on FacebookJune 29, 2012
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The European Union implemented a cap and trade scheme in 2005 to help it fulfil its obligations under the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol for reducing carbon emissions. The Scandinavian nations had independently imposed a carbon tax in the 1990s as p… Continue reading
Share on FacebookApril 24, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I want to follow up on yesterday’s article about placemaking. Reacting to an excellent essay by Ethan Kent, I posited that that the creation and strengthenin… Continue reading
September 7, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I’m of the opinion that the package of (bold, at the time) smart growth policies introduced in Maryland in the 1990s by then-governor Parris Glendening has d… Continue reading
August 9, 2010
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Photos by Jeff Kart So I spent the weekend at Lollapalooza, along with another 200,000 or so people, rocking out to headliners like Green Day, The Strokes and Lady Gaga. And I noticed something. For the most part, people were doing the right thing: Rec… Continue reading
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