Parked in direct sunlight, the poorly ventilated bubble-top Peel Trident could probably cook a chicken in about an hour.

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Spills would also be a health risk, since carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and so can build up in low-lying or poorly ventilated spots.

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In societies in two of the regions covered in the new report the Aleutian Islands and Peru people often lived in poorly ventilated underground shelters where women cooked with wood and oil.

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But while most people know that mold thrives in poorly ventilated and moist environments and indoor smoking worsens the air quality, fewer consumers know that toxic chemicals also lurk in everyday products purchased at the grocery store.

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"Using slow motion and freeze frame, Lane made sure that all of us sitting in that hot, poorly ventilated auditorium understood that Kennedy's head and shoulders were slammed backward and to the left, and that Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged shooting position was behind the presidential limousine, " Kelin wrote in a book, "Praise from a Future Generation, " about early critics of the Warren Report.

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