Residents of Delaware City are hoping a new monitoring effort will give them a better sense of what effect the nearby refinery has on the air they breathe.

Air monitors in three residential areas near the Delaware City Refinery are testing for dust, volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide and ammonia for two weeks this month.

Sarah Bucic, of the Delaware City Environmental Coalition, said they will compare the results with air samples taken last year when the refinery was temporarily closed.

I think it would be absolutely wonderful if we found nothing, Bucic said. What I think we will find is that there probably will be some effect of the refinery.

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BEIRUT — A car bomb in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed five people Saturday morning in the latest blow to a cease-fire that was to have ended violence in the country more than three weeks ago.

The explosion at a carwash in the Al Sukari neighborhood came a day after security forces fired at protesters and two days after four students were killed at Aleppo University, a hotbed of dissent in a city that has remained mostly passive in the 14-month anti-government uprising.

In the capital, Damascus, two explosions were also reported Saturday morning in the center of the city, but it was not clear if anyone was injured, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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Call it prom on steroids.

Going to prom is a much bigger deal for teens today than when their parents attended. Now, the average cost of prom is $1,078. Professionals are hired for all kinds of pre-prom primping, from airbrushed tans to eyelash extensions applied one by one. And boys are under pressure to come up with creative, attention-getting ways to ask girls to the dance.

Preparing for prom sounds a lot like preparing for ones own wedding.

Youve just learned your family is expanding and Baby No. 3 is on the way. You have all of the gear thanks to those first two offspring. You know what youre doing as a parent (relatively speaking), so rookie jitters about changing diapers, how delicately to hold a newborn and who takes first watch are absent. Youre a pro at this point so you can bask in the joy and expectation.

Then you realize that your current car might not fit three child-safety seats. Now its time to panic.

Fear not. Ive been there and am here to help.

And New York City wasn’t immune to drop.

Data from Dow Jones VentureSource released Friday found that $6.3 billion was raised by US companies from venture capitalists, down 18 percent.  There were 717 deals, down 9 percent.

“The declines were pretty evenly spread across industries, so there weren’t any big winners or big losers in the quarter,” said Jessica Canning, the companys global research director, in a press release.

In the New York City area, there were 75 deals, one less compared to the first three months of last year.  The size of the deals, however, were considerably smaller by comparison: $322 million raised in 2012 versus $658 million...

Its time to pull out your Wii Mario Kart video game and throw on vision goggles, or strut your stuff on the runway with a seat belt fashion show. Teens across the state are throwing creative events to mark National Youth Traffic Safety Month.

California could save 133 lives and $910 million if it strengthened its laws on teen driving, according to a report from The Allstate Foundation and the National Safety Council.

The Allstate foundation challenged teens across the state to lead events, and theyre rallying under group names like Students Against Destructive Decisions and Friday Night Live.

Teens play an important role in their own development as good drivers, California...

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The proportion of female teens who never have had sex is now comparable across racial/ethnic groups, it said.

About 60 percent of sexually experienced teens said they were currently using hormonal birth control such as the Pill, the intrauterine device (IUD) or injections, an increase from 47 percent in 1995.

Such contraceptive use was highest among whites (66 percent) and lowest among blacks (46 percent). Among sexually active Hispanic teenagers, 54 percent reported using a hormonal birth control method.

Condoms were deemed a moderately effective birth control method and were second in popularity among sexually active teenagers, having fallen steadily since 1995.

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In 2010, when the Indian government sold 10 percent of the shares of Coal India, one of the world’s largest coal mine operators, the transaction was a way to raise money to help reduce its budget deficit, Vikas Bajaj writes for DealBook in The New York Times.

It did not anticipate that some of the shares would end up in the hands of activist hedge fund managers who would demand that the behemoth company, which employs more than 372,000 people, be managed differently, Mr. Bajaj writes.

But in the last couple of months, that is just what has happened, he writes. The Children’s Investment Fund, a British hedge fund run by Christopher Hohn, has waged a public battle with...