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An independent safety oversight board is warning that a major earthquake could cause a catastrophic fire triggering a massive radiation leak at the main plutonium laboratory at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
What is $1.42 trillion? It's more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, almost as much as Canada's, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
Residents of four homes have been urged to seek shelter elsewhere because an overpass above their homes in is in danger of collapsing.
A pill used for thyroid disease can cause fatal liver failure in children and should no longer be used to treat them, two doctors warn. Doctors usually first try either propylthiouracil or methimazole to treat children with Graves' disease, the most common cause of an overactive thyroid. Other treatments are surgery and radioactive iodine.
The pain was different from before — deeper, sharper. Everyone else was sleeping in the banana grove shack, but Yslande Aristide could not bear it. She stood on the dirt floor and started to scream.
The Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has taken the unusual step of urging college students to avoid parts of northern Mexico during spring break.
The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.
Airplanes chew up birds all the time but sometimes the birds win. That may be what happened Thursday in New York when a US Airways Airbus 320 made a crash landing in water shortly after taking off from LaGuardia International Airport.
The stage was set for avalanches that have killed 19 people in western North America in two weeks by fall weather that created slick, unstable, icy slabs on mountains across the region, avalanche experts say.
Avalanche centers around the Rockies warned that backcountry conditions were hazardous and likely to become even more dangerous with approaching storms.
Apparently, the warning applies to everyone, from college student Danielle Gonzales to Barack Obama’s adviser, Valerie Jarrett: Don’t walk and text at the same time. Gonzales, a 19-year-old sophomore at San Diego State University, admits she’s stumbled more than once while sending texts on the street. “I’ve definitely tripped over things sometimes like the little cracks in the ground,” she said. “I have to remember to look up.”
Commercial fishing in Alaska is a killer, but it's not as deadly as it used to be.
Know how a whiff of certain odors can take you back in time, either to a great memory or bad one? It turns out emotion plays an even bigger role with the nose, and that your sense of smell actually can sharpen when something bad happens.
The deaths of 22 dolphins in trawler nets prompted fresh calls Wednesday for the New Zealand government to ban two types of fishing nets from the habitats of two critically endangered species of dolphin.
Microsoft Corp. agreed Monday to buy cell phone software maker Danger Inc., strengthening its position in consumer mobile phones and building its defenses against a major Google Inc. initiative.
Since then the Deliverator has kept the gun in the glove compartment and relied, instead, on a matched set of samurai swords, which have always been his weapon of choice anyhow. The punks in Gila Highlands weren't afraid of the gun, so the Deliverator was forced to use it.
Teacher Accused of Putting 'Hit' Out on Supposed Gay PupilReports have surfaced that teacher Randolph Forde, who works at Mundy Mill's High School, Clayton County, Georgia, took a 16-year-old teenager out of class to ask the youngster if he was gay.
The world's most dangerous roads - So bad that they should pay us to drive on it!We all know local roads which can be considered 'dangerous' - poorly lit lanes, potholed tracks, stretches of motorway which attract the area's wannabe Schumachers and so on.
Sidekick: Cloudy With a Chance of Data Loss"On the iPhone, you sync your data with your PC/Mac via iTunes, and MobileMe in parallel syncs both the iPhone and the PC/Mac with 'the cloud" [at MobileMe].
Teenage Girl Loses Her Fingers as She Stuck Her Hand in a Bucket of Plaster of Paris During Art ClassA school in eastern England was ordered to pay 19,000 pounds ($30,140) Monday after a 16-year-old girl lost nearly all her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during an art lesson.
T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick dataT-Mobile's now reporting that personal data stored on Sidekicks has "almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger."
Crusader tracks deadly toll of children strangled in blinds Tiara Robinson was frying bacon, eggs and sausage for breakfast while her two young children chased each other around their house in Bellefontaine Neighbors. She called them to eat, and her 2-year-old son raced to the table.
Obama Appoints Muslim to High-level Position in Department of Homeland Security During his years in Los Angeles, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the Police Department's plan to monitor activities within the Los Angeles Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas existed, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support fro …
Survey Ranks Most Dangerous US CollegesBOSTON -- A new survey ranks crime on the nation's college campuses and it indicates that some of the most dangerous colleges in the country are in Massachusetts.
The use of so called "embryonic" stem cells is creating a lot of heated debate in a number of discussion sites. I have even participated by posting on it here in Newsvine and in Gather.
Iron Leakage From Cast Cookware: Health Risk Or Not?I vaguely remember hearing or reading that cast iron cookware adds iron to your diet. Now that I focus on it, I read long ago that one way people with iron deficiencies can increase iron intake is to use this cookware.
Custard Creams can kill: OfficialA disturbing probe into the potential for apparently innocent biscuits' ability to do harm has revealed that an astounding 25 million Brits have been injured while indulging in some light coffee/tea break snack action, with 500 victims requiring hospital treatment.
Florida Garden Tip: Prune Trees Now Every time there is a big storm, or lots of wind, we see the problems caused by un-trimmed (or badly trimmed) trees. These trees can act like sails with their leaves and tree tops catching the wind, until it torques, topples or blows down onto something (or someone).
Why does the U.S. government torture people? U.S. government agents torture Americans far more often than they torture foreign "terrorists." If you want to know the truth about torture and why U.S. government agents can get away with committing these and other horrible crimes, see this article.
President Obama's army of citizen volunteers is now actively recruiting college students in states across the country to "build support for President Obama's agenda" – and earn college credit while advocating for "change." The most telling statement in the article?
Wave Rolls Log Onto 8-Year-Old GirlAn 8-year-old girl is in serious condition after a log rolled over her as she played in the surf, police said.
These women's self-defense moves might save their lives Law-enforcement agencies and private groups are teaching women to pay more attention to their surroundings and do whatever it takes to fend off an attacker — even if that means faking a seizure.
On Tuesday, August 11th my daughter visited an Arizona Mall mid-morning to pick up a few things for a wedding that we will be attending this weekend. Walking back to her car she noticed a man coming towards her. Nothing creepy.
FDA likely to approve unproven swine flu vaccines.H1N1 vaccination planned without data on effectiveness. Will you take part in this test?
In Dinuba, California, a Dodge Neon carrying three men was chased by police through a stop sign and into a crash with a pick up truck. This resulted in the deaths of all five chlidren in the truck, ages one through eight and the three people inside the pursued vehicle.
Our children's world isn't as dangerous as it's made out to be | McClatchyI've said this all along. While our parents today coddle, hide and remove any idea of danger from their children it's actually false that kids are in any more danger today than 20 years ago.
Diving with the sharks Recent shark attacks around Florida have made the news lately but should that make you scared to go to the beach?
Gay vs. Orthodox: A Deadly Turn in Israel's Culture War?Israeli police launched a citywide manhunt through Tel Aviv for the masked, black-clad gunman who opened fire with a pistol at a gay youth club on Saturday night, Aug. 1, killing two and wounding 15 more.
Defectors tell of Burma's secret nuclear reactor - Asia, World - The Independent
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