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NEW DELHI mdash; The truth of New Delhirsquo toxic air finally hit home for Rakhi Singh when her 3-year-old son began to cough constantly early this year. She bought air purifiers for her home. When a thick, gray haze turned the view outside her home into a scene from a bad science fiction film last month, she bou yeezy slide ght pollution masks.Having a kid made the reality of the cityrsquo pollution hit me harder, she said.The news that the Indian capital is one of the dirtiest cities in the world is three years old. But the awareness that itrsquo toxic enough to leave its citizens chronically ill and requires long-term lifestyle changes is relatively nascent.The first week of November, when a thick blanket of toxic haze covered the city, did much to hasten that awareness. And with the awareness came a brisk uptick in the sale of air purifiers and pollution masks.As the noise and smoke from millions of firecrackers from the Hindu festival of Diwali died down, the city woke up Nov. 1 to soaring levels of PM2.5 mdash;pollution particles so tiny they can get deeply embedded in the lun adidas originals gs. Levels in the Indian capital averaged well over 900 micrograms per cubic m mizuno handballschuh eter, more than 36 times the level the WHO considers acceptable and 15 times the Indian norm. Manufacturers and importers of air purifiers and pollution masks say late 2016 is the first time theyrsquo;ve had a serious number of Indian families inquiring about and buying their products.Itrsquo; Snyl Ancient Tribes Touched By Tsunami
CBS News ANTAKYA, Turkey -- What may look like a basement storefront in a Turkish town near the Syrian border actually conceals a school for 500 children -- all of them refugees from Syria s civil war. Omar, 13, attends a makeshift school in Turkey with 500 other children who have fled Syria s civil war. CBS News CBS News visited an English class, where we met 13-year-old Omar, an Aleppo native.Aleppo, Syria s largest city, has been pounded for months by the Syrian air f stanley mug orce. Whole neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble.When the fighting got too close, Omar and his family fled across the border to Turkey. Bashar al Assad destroyed all of Syria, and we come here to have a life -- a good life, Omar said. Another boy, Ali, said he lost both of his hands and his left eye when a plane bombed his house.Maintaining normalcy in war-torn Syr stanley mugs iaSyria official: 14 dead in mortar attack on schoolIn a math class, CBS News asked how many had lost someone in their family in the war. Nearly a third raised their hands. Principal Zikwan Da yid CBS News Principal Zikwan Da yid taught history in Syria. He said he was arre stanley kubek sted three times by government forces before he escaped to Turkey. He said many of the children at the school are traumatized. They get frighte
NEW DELHI mdash; The truth of New Delhirsquo toxic air finally hit home for Rakhi Singh when her 3-year-old son began to cough constantly early this year. She bought air purifiers for her home. When a thick, gray haze turned the view outside her home into a scene from a bad science fiction film last month, she bou yeezy slide ght pollution masks.Having a kid made the reality of the cityrsquo pollution hit me harder, she said.The news that the Indian capital is one of the dirtiest cities in the world is three years old. But the awareness that itrsquo toxic enough to leave its citizens chronically ill and requires long-term lifestyle changes is relatively nascent.The first week of November, when a thick blanket of toxic haze covered the city, did much to hasten that awareness. And with the awareness came a brisk uptick in the sale of air purifiers and pollution masks.As the noise and smoke from millions of firecrackers from the Hindu festival of Diwali died down, the city woke up Nov. 1 to soaring levels of PM2.5 mdash;pollution particles so tiny they can get deeply embedded in the lun adidas originals gs. Levels in the Indian capital averaged well over 900 micrograms per cubic m mizuno handballschuh eter, more than 36 times the level the WHO considers acceptable and 15 times the Indian norm. Manufacturers and importers of air purifiers and pollution masks say late 2016 is the first time theyrsquo;ve had a serious number of Indian families inquiring about and buying their products.Itrsquo; Snyl Ancient Tribes Touched By Tsunami
CBS News ANTAKYA, Turkey -- What may look like a basement storefront in a Turkish town near the Syrian border actually conceals a school for 500 children -- all of them refugees from Syria s civil war. Omar, 13, attends a makeshift school in Turkey with 500 other children who have fled Syria s civil war. CBS News CBS News visited an English class, where we met 13-year-old Omar, an Aleppo native.Aleppo, Syria s largest city, has been pounded for months by the Syrian air f stanley mug orce. Whole neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble.When the fighting got too close, Omar and his family fled across the border to Turkey. Bashar al Assad destroyed all of Syria, and we come here to have a life -- a good life, Omar said. Another boy, Ali, said he lost both of his hands and his left eye when a plane bombed his house.Maintaining normalcy in war-torn Syr stanley mugs iaSyria official: 14 dead in mortar attack on schoolIn a math class, CBS News asked how many had lost someone in their family in the war. Nearly a third raised their hands. Principal Zikwan Da yid CBS News Principal Zikwan Da yid taught history in Syria. He said he was arre stanley kubek sted three times by government forces before he escaped to Turkey. He said many of the children at the school are traumatized. They get frighte
