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and why Gustav wasn’t as bad as Katrina – The theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic over the past 30 years is bolstered by a new study.

Using global satellite data, researchers James B. Elsner, James P. Kossin and Thomas H. Jagger found that the strongest tropical cyclones are, in fact, getting stronger?and that ocean temperatures play a role in driving this trend. Elsner says, “As seas warm, the ocean has more energy that can be converted to tropical cyclone wind.”
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Kids! – You don’t have to be ajogger tosuffer from highway pollution. New evidence blamestraffic-related pollution for increasing the risk of allergyamong children by more than 50%, and the closer the childrenlive to roads, the higher their risk. And it?s not justwhere kids live, it’s where they go SCHOOL. Almost a thirdof US schools are inside an air pollution “danger zone”because they’re located near major highways.
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Bullies: it turns out EVERYONE is a victim, including the bullies THEMSELVES – Now that school is starting, the perpetual problem of bullies is on people’s minds again. Whether you or your child is beginning his or her first day of kindergarten, or starting that last year of high school, bullying is a reality every student will face.

Thank goodness there is no definitive evidence that bullying makes kids more likely to kill themselves. But life takes revenge on bullies?even if the students who are bullies can’t always do it themselves. Compared to their victims, bullies experience a significantly higher risk of a wide range of health, safety and educational problems.
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…in fact, most players never recover – Football players have the shortest professional lives of players of any other sport. Not only do the have the most injuries during the NFL season, they often don’t live long after they STOP playing either.

And it turns out you don’t need to participate in sports to get the benefits: just WATCHING them on TV can be beneficial… EXCEPT for professional wrestling, can lead to a life of crime!

The Mayo Clinic discovered that 82% of NFL players under age 50 had abnormal narrowing and blockages in their arteries, compared to the general population of the same age, meaning that former players face increased risk of experiencing high blood pressure, heart attack or stroke.
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