His team explored these risks in a 2009 study -- and found that for both men and women, the rate of cardiac deaths in Los Angeles increased following the city's Super Bowl defeat in 1980.
Yet over the past decade, the number of people with bachelor's degrees grew by a remarkable 50% in Austin and Charlotte and by over 30% in Tampa, Houston, Dallas and Atlanta a far greater percentage growth rate than in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago or New York.
The jump in costs is most dramatic in cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Miami, where the rate of appreciation has far outpaced the national average.
Not only do commuters in Southern California inhale the worst year-round particle pollution levels, but Riverside drivers also face the highest rate of fatal auto accidents per capita, and Los Angeles drivers spend the most time sitting in traffic.
Its population of roughly 10, 000 includes a large Hispanic community, relies largely on Los Alamos National Lab for employment and struggles with a high poverty rate.
The Riverside-San Bernardino metro area, east of Los Angeles, was fourth on the list with a 3.8 percent foreclosure rate.
Houston, Austin, Dallas, Charlotte, Atlanta and Raleigh also saw their child populations rise by at least twice the 10% rate of the rest country over the past decade while New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago areas experienced declines.
The former New York police chief, who managed to halve the murder rate in the Big Apple, has now taken up the task of cleaning up Los Angeles.
Housed in a grim, unassuming building near the Los Angeles airport, it had lost its high school due to budget cuts, and the dropout rate had soared to nearly 60 percent.
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That's probably why, in the NBA, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers teams of the '80s, led by Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, respectively, rate higher than the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls clubs of the 1990s.
But mostly the survival rate is low: 3% in Chicago, 5% in New York and 7% in Los Angeles, for example, according to information compiled from medical reports by Resuscitation Academy, a Seattle-based training school for leaders of emergency-medical-services programs.
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