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Photos: Council Speaker Quinn talks tolls, Wheel during Staten Island Ferry campaign stop

2013-08-26 18:28:58| Railroads - Topix.net

Democratic City Council Speaker Christine Quinn began a five-borough mayoral campaign swing on Monday morning with a stop at the St. George Ferry Terminal.

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Death tolls from summer heat waves are hazy

2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wall Street Journal: Hot weather can be deadly, but a summer's full toll often isn't known until after fall has arrived. When a heat wave strikesas it has this summer in the U.S., Europe and Chinadeath rates rise. But heat's role usually isn't readily apparent. Instead, its victims die of underlying conditions, usually of the heart or lungs, that needed the extra ingredient of heat to become fatal. Moreover, those who succumb to heat often die alone and aren't discovered until after their bodies have cooled. So heat's...

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