Category Archives: Safety

Honda recalls 554,000 SUVs over headlights

By doris | Published: March 30, 2012

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com When it comes to safety-related quality problems, 2011 wasn’t a good year for Honda, and 2012 isn’t getting off to any better of a start. The Japanese maker, traditionally known for solid reliability, has announced it will recall about 550,000 of its Pilot and CR-V crossover due to problems that could [...]

Also posted in Cars, Honda, Recall | Leave a comment

More grocery chains drop “pink slime” from shelves: What about Wal-Mart?

By doris | Published: March 24, 2012

Full Story at CBSNews.com (CBS/AP) The “pink slime” saga continues, but is the meat byproduct soon on its way out? Several of the largest supermarket chains in the country announced this week that they would drop the ammonia-treated meat with the colorful nickname from their shelves. The beef with “pink slime” continues as supermarkets, schools [...]

Also posted in Business, Food, Pink Slime | Leave a comment

Red Meat Tied to Increased Mortality Risk

By doris | Published: March 12, 2012

Full Story at ABC News.go.com Eating a single serving of red meat per day may raise the risk of early death, a new study found. The study, which followed more than 120,000 American men and women, linked daily consumption of unprocessed red meat with a 13 percent increase in mortality risk. A daily serving of [...]

Also posted in Food, Health, Risk | Leave a comment

Diabetes, memory loss warnings added to statins

By doris | Published: February 29, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com U.S. health regulators will add warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to indicate that they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss. The Food and Drug administration announced the changes to the safety information on the labels of statins such [...]

Also posted in drugs, FDA, Health | Leave a comment

Opinion:Driving and helping our selfs

By doris | Published: January 28, 2012

Where do some drivers get there license from. Some people don’t even stop at stop signs. They run the lights and don’t even care. You have to drive your car and everyone else’s car. Do the drivers just don’t care or is everyone just in to big of a hurry. I know with the cut [...]

Also posted in Age, Driving, Family, Goverment, Opinion | Leave a comment

US automakers look to build on victories in the new year

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com Ford is hoping history can repeat itself with the upcoming launch of the next-generation Fusion four-door. It’s been more than a quarter century since the maker revolutionized automotive design with the original Taurus sedan. Its windswept styling helped Ford dominate the huge midsize market segment, and led most competitors to migrate [...]

Also posted in Cars, Company, Family, Financial, Jobs | Leave a comment

US calls for ban on in-car phone use … even with Bluetooth

By doris | Published: December 13, 2011

Full Story at USNews.msnbc.msn.com Updated at 4 p.m. ET: The government’s transportation safety experts recommended Tuesday to ban all American drivers from using portable electronic devices — including cell phones, even if you use a hands-free device. The recommendation, which isn’t binding but which is likely to influence the decisions of Congress and state legislatures [...]

Also posted in Ban, Cars, Cell Phone, Goverment, Travel | Leave a comment

Dodge the draft and cut home heating costs

By doris | Published: September 20, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com (MONEY Magazine) — You don’t have to invest thousands in high-tech insulation or a super-efficient furnace to cut home heating costs. Just sealing drafts could lower your bills 3% to 18%, according to Danny Parker, a research scientist who works with the Department of Energy. In the high-heating-cost Northeast, that translates [...]

Also posted in Closing, Home, Spending, Technology | Leave a comment

A mother’s war on germs at fast-food playlands

By doris | Published: September 18, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com GILBERT, Ariz. — One of those who kicked off her shoes and slithered her way through the multihued plastic tubes of a fast-food restaurant playground here one recent morning was not enjoying herself in the least. In fact, she had a frown on her face. “It’s bad,” Erin M. Carr-Jordan said, [...]

Also posted in Company, Consumer, Contamination, Restaurant | Leave a comment

The school that banned mirrors to teach girls a lesson

By doris | Published: September 16, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com In a controversial effort to curb teen vanity, a school in England prohibits makeup and removes mirrors from the girls’ bathrooms Talk about plain dealing. The 14- to 16-year-old girls at Shelley College in West Yorkshire, England have been banned from wearing makeup, and are checked daily for offending eyeliner and [...]

Also posted in Children, Dispute, Education, Research, School | Leave a comment

How safe is your hotel room safe?

By doris | Published: September 12, 2011

Full Story at OverheadBin.msnbc.msn.com I don’t know about you, but the first thing I do when I check into a hotel is conduct an obligatory spot-check for bedbugs, unpack my belongings and place my passport, extra money and other items of value in the hotel safe, which, by name alone should be the best place [...]

Also posted in Business, Financial, Hotel, Research, Theft | Leave a comment

After 9/11: A decade of deaths, marriages, war and peace

By doris | Published: September 8, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Six-year-olds often times forget their own last names, but I remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001, like it was last week. I remember wearing my favorite jumper and my mother braiding my hair. I remember eating scrambled eggs off a yellow plate. And then I remember the radio anchor said, ‘Wow! Have [...]

Also posted in 9/11, America, Attacked, Business, Change, Children, Company, Consumer, Death, Donate, Family, Loss, Mom, Stimulus, Uranium, Violence | Leave a comment

More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

Also posted in Arrested, Border, drugs, Homeland Security, Illegal, Immigration, Mexico, Pipeline | Leave a comment

Oil spill on Montana’s Yellowstone River forces evacuation

By doris | Published: July 3, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – An undetermined amount of crude oil spilled from an ExxonMobil pipeline into the Yellowstone River in Montana, prompting evacuations of nearby residents on Saturday, authorities said. The spill that was detected early Saturday came from a crude oil pipeline that runs from Silver Tip to Billings, Montana, [...]

Also posted in Business, Cleanup, Oil, Pipeline | Leave a comment

Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of [...]

Also posted in Environment, Food, Health, Manufacturing, Science | Leave a comment

Chevrolet Volt earns top gov’t safety rating

By doris | Published: June 3, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Chevrolet Volt earned a top five-star rating in thee federal government’s new, tougher crash test rating system. Under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new rating system, all vehicles are given a single rating of one to five stars encompassing front and side impact safety as [...]

Also posted in Cars, Electricity, Fuel, Goverment, Manufacturing | Leave a comment

FBI requests Unabomber’s DNA for Tylenol poisonings probe

By doris | Published: May 19, 2011

Full Story atContent.usatoday.com Update at 1:31 p.m. ET: The lawyer for Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, who is serving life in prison for sending a series of deadly mailbombs, says his client has been asked to provide a DNA sample as part of the FBI’s long-running investigation into the 1982 Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people, USA [...]

Also posted in Arrested, DNA, drugs, Goverment | Leave a comment

A guide to headache remedies

By doris | Published: May 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Real Simple) — Head hurts? Try one of these doctor-approved pain relievers. Relaxation techniques Best for: Soothing stress before a headache starts. How they work: Simple deep breathing and stretching (neck and shoulder rolls, in particular) relax tense muscles that trigger headaches, says Sheena Aurora, M.D., the director of the Swedish [...]

Also posted in Consumer, Dispute, Health, Prescription Drugs, Searching, Stress | Leave a comment

Terror plot against New York synagogue busted

By doris | Published: May 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Two men suspected of planning an attack on a New York synagogue have been arrested, marking the end of a seven-month undercover operation carried out by New York police officers. The suspects, Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who were detained Wednesday night in midtown Manhattan, had not [...]

Also posted in Arrested, Attacked, Searching, Terrorism | Leave a comment

South fears loss of national interest in twister recovery

By doris | Published: May 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HARVEST, Ala. — The Rev. Michael Katschke is worried, but not about running out of the food, diapers and other supplies he hands out to tornado victims at the Crosswinds United Methodist Church in northern Alabama. Katschke is worried about the rest of the country just moving on. “They’re going to [...]

Also posted in America, Cleanup, Consumer, Earth, Environment, Financial, Missing Persons, Money, Natural Events, Searching, Stress, Victims | Leave a comment