Safety

Protecting the President: Lessons Learned?

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Protection, Protecting, Squeaky Fromme. Gun, Patti Hearst, Cia, Shield, Secret Service, President Obama, Safety, Fbi, Obama, Ford, President, Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, Defense, National Security, Manson, Assassin, Security, San Francisco, Politics News
Geri Spieler

The woman was Sara Jane Moore. There were two significant Secret-Service-related reasons that she was free to stand on that sidewalk that afternoon, gun in hand.

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14 Steps to Food Safety

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumers Union, Pesticides, Food Policy Institute, Organic Food, Food and Water Watch, Fda, Safety, Food Imports, Food, Environmental Working Group, Center for Food Safety, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

I was shocked to learn that only 1% of most imported food gets inspected. Unless sticking to natural, non processed, domestic foods, there is no way of knowing for sure what's in our food.

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Keep Traveling. Just Smarter and Safer.

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Terror, Solo Traveler, Travel, Mumbai, Terrorism, London Terror, Safety, Traveling Alone, Solo Travel, Traveling, Culture, Style News
Lea Lane

Over several decades I've traveled to more than a hundred countries, often alone. Many of them were challenging and so-called third world, but I've gotten through incipient coups and typhoons without major incident.

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Good Fish, Bad Fish, It's Hard to Know

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Raised, Contaminants, Health, Safety, Fish, Mercury, Food, Sustainability, Safe Fish, Green News
Marguerite Manteau-Rao

(cross-posted from La Marguerite blog) Have you tried sorting out the information on fish? Which kind can you eat without worrying about mercury, PC...

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Israeli Journalist: It's Safe To Assume That Obama Won't Abandon Israel

Haaretz.com | Akiva Eldar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Policies, Barack Obama, President Obama, Secret Service, Safety, President George W. Bush, Politics News

As the world's largest democracy on Tuesday chose - for the first time in its history - a black president, Israel's own democracy marked 13 years sinc...

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Allstate: Can Brain Training Help Improve Driver Safety?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Older Drivers, Driving, Aging, Insight, Insurance, Driving Skills, Health, Auto Insurance, Safety, Allstate, Brain Training, Software, Posit Science, Brain Fitness, Teenagers, Healthy Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Allstate, which called the Posit program "potentially the next big breakthrough in automobile safety," said it expects software exercises to reduce risky driving maneuvers by up to 40 percent.

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P.O.W., It's the New Teflon

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Amato, Ben Smith, Steve Benen, Maureen Dowd, John McCain, Ana Marie Cox, Howard Fineman, John Kerry, Pow, Safety, Charlton Heston, Rambo, Vietnam, Security, John Wayne, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

McCain has been tweaking his P.O.W. story, with some variation, for many years. For Democrats, critiquing its overuse is too little, too late.

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Revelations In The Midst Of The Mid Moderate 5.4 Los Angeles Earthquake

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Earthquake, Doorway, Los Angeles Earthquake 7/29/08, Emergency Preparedness, Safety, Red Cross, Healthy Living News
Stacie Krajchir

I did scan all news sites seconds after the earthquake, just to see who would be the fastest to file a report -- it took close to 15 minutes to even see anything appear online!

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Safety First - NOT!

Deane Waldman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthcare System, Medical Errors, Medical Quality, Learning, Safety, Healthcare, Healthy Living News
Deane Waldman

There is a recent push in U.S. hospitals to inculcate a "culture of safety." Can anyone be against safety? I can and you be will too, if you want healthcare to improve.

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