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Byline: Photographed by Horacio Salinas
Ozone, soot, teeny-tiny particles--what exactly are we breathing, and what is it doing to our health? Robert Sullivan investigates.
On a warm spring afternoon, when the sky is clear and beautiful, I am breathing--which, sure, is not that unusual, except that on this particular day, thanks to George Thurston, a professor of environmental medicine at New York University Medical School, I am able to get an idea of precisely what I am breathing. Not necessarily a good thing.
"I've just been standing here, and it's going way up," Thurston says by way of greeting. He is at the corner of Waverly and University ...