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Honda confirms eighth death linked to Takata airbags
2015-06-20 02:37:00| Automakers - Topix.net
Honda Motor Co's U.S. unit said on Friday it has linked the September 2014 death of a woman in Los Angeles, California, to the rupture of a Takata airbag inflator, bringing to eight the number of fatalities related to defective Takata airbags. U.S. highway safety regulators also confirmed that the death of Jewel Brangman in a 2001 Honda Civic is the seventh U.S. death, and the eighth fatality worldwide related to Takata airbag inflators that can explode, sending shards of metal through the passenger compartments of cars.
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US mid-continent seismicity linked to high-rate injection wells
2015-06-18 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A dramatic increase in the rate of earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. since 2009 is associated with fluid injection wells used in oil and gas development, says a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder and the U.S. Geological Survey. The number of earthquakes associated with injection wells has skyrocketed from a handful per year in the 1970s to more than 650 in 2014, according to CU-Boulder doctoral student Matthew Weingarten, who led the study. The increase included several...
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Heinz Apologizes For QR Code Linked To Porn Site
2015-06-18 13:56:16| Food - Topix.net
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China deports British, American investigators linked to GSK scandal
2015-06-17 16:08:39| Biotech - Topix.net
A combination photo shows British corporate investigator Peter Humphrey and his wife Yu Yingzeng as they leave the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court inside a police vehicle in Shanghai August 8, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Aly Song A British corporate sleuth and his American wife and business partner, both linked to a bribery scandal in China involving drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC, were deported on Wednesday after their jail terms were reduced this month.
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Low-Level Air Pollution Linked to Death
2015-06-05 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A team at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over age 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5. The harmful effects from the particles were observed even in areas where concentrations were less than a third of the current standard set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "Most of the country is either meeting the EPA standards now, or is expected to meet them in a few...
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