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Recall Alert: 2012 Lamborghini Aventador
KickingTiresLamborghini is recalling 144 model-year 2012 Aventador sports cars because of headlamps that do not conform to federal safety standards, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The affected vehicles, manufactured from July 15,...Tags: Science and Technology, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Highway Transportation, Lamborghini
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Petoskey earns upgrade in fire protection rating
PETOSKEY -- An organization that rates communities' fire-protection capabilities recently upgraded its ranking of those in Petoskey. During Monday's Petoskey City Council meeting, city manager Dan Ralley noted that the Insurance Services Office (ISO)...
Tags: Science and Technology, Insurance, Government, Safety of Citizens, Politics
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Pension chief: Mossburg ignores reforms
In her latest column, "Maryland's debt bomb" (Dec. 5), Marta Mossburg cites a report by the State Budget Solutions that Maryland's "pension obligations to state employees are about $48.2 billion." Ms. Mossburg and other critics of defined benefit plans...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, Employees, Government
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EPA tightens standards for soot pollution
This post has been corrected. See below for details.Citing the need to strengthen safeguards to public health, the Obama administration announced the strictest standards in 15 years for soot, the fine particles emitted by power plants and diesel vehicles that contribute to haze and respiratory ailments....Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution
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Sundance 2013: Female directors discuss the challenges they face
PARK CITY, Utah — Hollywood is dominated by men, and so, it turns out, is independent film. As a new study of Sundance Film Festival titles shows, less than a quarter of all American features over the last 10 years at Sundance were directed by...
Tags: The New York Times, Teachers, Blade Runner (movie), Film Festivals, Sundance Film Festival
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Reality shows may put crews too close to cutting edge
Monica Martino had filmed tornadoes in the Midwest, ship collisions in the Antarctic and crab fishermen in Alaska's Bering Sea. But those experiences didn't prepare her for a terrifying nighttime boat ride in the Amazon jungle. In February, the 41-year-...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Unions, Keeping Up with the Kardashians (tv program), Human Mishaps, Media Industry
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EPA cites Shell Arctic drilling rigs for air emissions violations
SEATTLE — Adding to the troubles plaguing Shell Alaska and its drilling program in the Arctic, the Environmental Protection Agency announced late Thursday that it had issued air pollution citations to both of the company’s Arctic drilling rigs...
Tags: Ken Salazar, Bodies of Water, Environmental Politics, Petroleum Industry, Environmental Pollution
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Former American Humane Assn. employee sues AHA, HBO over 'Luck'
A former senior employee of the American Humane Assn., the group responsible for the "No Animals Were Harmed" certification on film credits, is suing her former employer, saying she was wrongfully terminated for complaining about the alleged abuse and...
Tags: Advanced Training, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, Trials, Laws
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EPA issues air pollution standards for boilers and cement plants
After a decade of legal and regulatory fights, the Environmental Protection Agency has finalized how it will crack down on highly toxic pollution from industrial boilers and cement plants. But the regulations will give owners of industrial boilers and...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution
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Howard H. Seliger, Hopkins biology professor
Howard H. Seliger, a retired Johns Hopkins University biology professor who fulfilled a childhood fascination with fireflies by later investigating the science behind their light-making properties, died of coronary artery disease Dec. 20 at his Mount...Tags: Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Tuberculosis, Manhattan (New York City), Colleges and Universities
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Flip the switch on new light bulb rules for 2013
When we asked photographer Matthew Rolston to give readers a primer on lamps and bulbs earlier this year, we knew more light bulb regulations were coming to California in 2013. We knew how important lighting was in Rolston's photography. And we knew...
Tags: Energy Saving, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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EPA announcement puts farm dust regulation issue to rest
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM2.5), including soot, setting the annual health standard at 12 micrograms per cubic meter, in...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Environmental Politics
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