Saturday, June 20, 2009 For the past ten years, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been overseeing the asbestos clean-up in the small town of Libby, Montana, which has been on the EPA’s Superfund National Priorities List since 2002. On Wednesday, the Obama administration declared Libby and the immediate area a “public health […]
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This is the category for Health. See also the Health Portal. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 20 May 2018: Hawaii’s K?lauea volcano releases ash plumes to 30,000 feet, prompting aviation alerts 25 January 2018: Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai 17 January 2018: British surfers catch more than waves: Scientists find antibiotic-resistant […]
Read MoreWorld War II veteran regains use of second eye after freak accident
Thursday, December 14, 2006 Veteran Don Karkos was impaired in the December 7, 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor when the tanker USS Rapaden exploded, sending shrapnel into his face, above his right eye. Don Karkos awoke in a military hospital in Iceland. The doctors told him that he would not be able to see out […]
Read MorePenske Auto selected to buy General Motors’ Saturn unit
Friday, June 5, 2009 General Motors Corporation (GM), an American automaker which has filed for bankruptcy protection, announced on Friday that the Penske Automotive Group (PAG) was selected to purchase Saturn Corporation. The transaction should be completed in October. The purchase includes rights to the Saturn brand, its five current models and its dealership network. […]
Read MoreBC man is selling the boat from old TV series Gilligan’s Island
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 A man named George Schultz in Parksville, British Columbia is selling the boat from old TV series Gilligan’s Island at the cost of $99,000. The cruiser, originally cost about $290,000 in the 1960s. “There have been a couple of modifications, so it doesn’t look exactly like the original,” said Shultz, a […]
Read MoreTeenage gunman kills 15 in south-west Germany
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 A 17 year old gunman has killed 15 in the towns of Winnenden and Wendlingen, near Stuttgart in southwest Germany, before being killed himself in a shootout with police. Dressed in what has been described as black combat gear, the gunman entered Albertville school at 9.30am on March 11 2009 and, […]
Read MoreHubble telescope spots oldest galaxies ever seen
Thursday, December 10, 2009 American and European scientists say the upgraded Hubble space telescope has spotted the oldest galaxies ever seen. The images were taken with the telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) in August this year. The galaxies are about 13 billion light years from Earth, meaning they formed less than one billion […]
Read MoreElite Boston Marathon runner Emily Levan discusses life and running
Saturday, April 23, 2005 The interview below was conducted by Pingswept over the phone with Emily Levan on April 21, 2005. Levan lives in Wiscasset, Maine, with her husband and daughter, and she ran in the Boston Marathon women’s race on April 18, 2005. To summarize for our readers, you recently came in 12th in […]
Read MoreAustralia sends more troops to Afghanistan
Tuesday, February 21, 2006 The Australian government has confirmed it will send an extra 200 troops to Afghanistan as part of a security and reconstruction team. Prime Minister John Howard says troops will leave from late July and will spend about two years in Afghanistan separate from the Special Forces and commandos already serving there. […]
Read MoreExisting US home sales fall 9.6% in February
Monday, March 21, 2011 Sales of existing homes in the U.S. fell 9.6% in February, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said today, in a sign that the U.S. housing market is still depressed. The figure was worse than the 3.9% decline anticipated by the economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires and questions whether the […]
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