1.   And for Clean Water Action, concerned about emissions from nearby power plants and Hamden County asthma rates, the time to strike is when people are at home.

2.   Another grant went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to look at the impact of air pollutants and rising ozone on asthma rates among inner-city children.

3.   Asthma rates are highest in low-income urban neighborhoods, experts in the field agree.

4.   A recent study in the journal Science suggested rising asthma rates could be related to a decrease in certain other diseases rather than pollution.

5.   Gore said that the asthma hospitalization rate for children in the Bronx is five times the normal rate.

6.   He points out that U.S. pollution rates have fallen while asthma rates have climbed, and areas of China with heavily polluted skies have relatively low asthma rates.

7.   In New York City, studies have shown the asthma rate to be three times the national average.

8.   It is also a community that has been besieged at times by vermin, putrid odors and high asthma rates from truck traffic and sludge treatment tanks.

9.   Over the same period that asthma rates have been rising, radials have virtually replaced bias plies as the standard tire for cars and trucks.

10.   High salt diets, and junk food in particular have been linked to an increase in asthma rates.