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You can’t watch a NASCAR race without seeing at least one crash. And with all the new safety features, such as the HANS device (head and neck support), along with the safer wall barriers at the tracks, it’s still incredible that drivers can walk away without a scratch, even when their cars are completely totaled. [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Ever since mankind first began building structures out of wood rather than stone, fire has been a part of the learning process. In fact, so common have these infernos been throughout history that nearly every major city in the world has been largely burnt to the ground at one time or another in its history. [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:01 am
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It’s one of the public health’s top ten goals for the 20th century, creating a safer, more toxic-free food supply, but meanwhile virtually all food products are contaminated with various chemicals, bacteria, heavy metals, and residues from pesticides. According to many sources, Americans are exposed to what are called POPs or “Persistent Organic Pollutants” 70 [...]
Posted by Natalie Jaro on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Food, Health · Tagged added food constituents, Australia, beverage products, Breyer, Breyer & Associates PC, canada, car smell, chemical cocktails, chemical industries, Chemical reactions, chemicals containing chlorine, dangerous chemicals, Dannon, Danone S.A., Disaster_Accident, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental science, European Union, FDA, food chain, Food contaminants, Food contamination, food handlers, food item, food processing or/and poor hygiene practices, food products, food stuffs, food supply, GBP, ground water systems, Haagen-Dazs, Haagen-Dazs International Shoppe Company, hormonal systems, improper food handling, Japan, Kroger, local industrial and mining operations, mass manufacturing plants, meat products, microwave, milk products, Monsanto, Monsanto Company, Nestle, Nestle S.A., plastics, Pollution, reproductive systems, sewage systems, Starbucks Corporation, The Kroger Co., toxic and carcinogenic chemicals, toxic chemicals, toxic metal, toxic-free food supply, United States, veterinary pharmaceuticals, Water pollution, Yoplait, YOPLAIT S.A.S.
Oil spills have occurred ever since we began to harvest it for various uses, as a result of human error, laziness, or pure ignorance. Most recently, the devastating Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been all over the news- oil was pouring out of the blown rig for almost 100 [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 12:01 am
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