He started elementary school in the Fall of 1940 and enjoyed a few months of school, when, suddenly, one morning in the Spring of 1941 a barrage of bombs engulfed the apartment house where his family resided; the Second World War arrived in Serbia, and especially Belgrade, with fury and destruction. For the next four years, his life and the life of his family would hang in the balance. Hunger, ...

This work presents results of studies on secondary school adolescents inhabiting two regions of Warsaw: Sródmiescie district (Downtown) and Miedzylesie (Wawer district - Vicinity), conducted in 2006. These two districts significantly differ according to air pollution, which is much higher in Downtown than in Vicinity. The sample consists of 219 boys and 225 girls aged 13-16 years. The measureme...