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Amish men guilty of not displaying emblems

Seven Amish men in southwestern Kentucky were found guilty of refusing to display slow-moving vehicle emblems aimed at helping... more

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Frustration-Free Packaging

If opening packages has become your worst nightmare, then check out what Amazon is doing to create easy-to-open,... more

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Tyson Chicken Vs. USDA Round 2

Tyson chicken is uber sleazy and lie on their food labels. Tyson Foods has admitted that it injects its chickens with antibiotics... more

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Uranium: Boom, Bust and Back Again

Mining is returning to the Uranium Capital of the World. But do people really want it back again?

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Smokers banned from fostering

LONDON (Reuters) - A council has become the first in London to rule that smokers will no longer be able to foster children. ... more

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Man dies in gas explosion

Six men were wounded in Hertfordshire in a gas explosion. One man died from the blast, thought to have been caused by an argon... more

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Cigarette to blame for twenty dead in bus fire

A German tour bus caught fire and twenty people were killed in the blaze. Police are saying the cause of the fire was a passenger... more

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Half of drunk drivers getting off scot-free

Motorist charged with drunk driving have a 50/50 chance of getting away with it, shocking new figures reveal. More than 71,000... more

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Learn to ride safely in traffic

Here's an excellent way to sharpen your bicycling skills. David Henderson, the bicycle-pedestrian coordinator for Miami-Dade... more

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Drug houses a danger to new owners

People who unknowingly purchase homes that have been used in the illegal drug trade may put their health and their lives at risk,... more

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China milk scandal spreads to eggs

The authorities on the island said that the eggs contained twice the legal limit of melamine, an industrial chemical which made... more

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E-cards may aid in STD notification

"Electronic "postcards" may offer a new way to alert the partners of patients with sexually transmitted diseases... more

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Paralympian swimmer banned from waterslide

Amputee Steve Simmonds has swum at the Paralympics for Australia, won five world disabled waterski titles and walked the Kokoda... more

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Crib safety checks urged after recall

WASHINGTON—A recall on Monday of nearly 1.6 million cribs, triggered by the suffocations of two 8-month-old infants, has... more

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Study Finds Tap Safer Than Bottled Water

"A newly released study by The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found some bottled waters are “no different than that of tap water.”

Pain medication, fertilizer residue and other various chemicals were found in some major brands of bottled water.

While many brands of bottled water may be pure as the label promises, the true problem is being able to tell the good from the bad. The federal government regulates public water supplies, but that is not the case for bottled water.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does have some supervision on the matter, but bottled water is not high on their list of priorities.

Bottled water containing cancer-causing contaminants were purchased in five states – California, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and the District of Columbia - all of which were found to substantially exceed the voluntary standards established by the bottled water industry.

Each year consumers receive annual test results regarding tap water, but the bottled water industry does not reveal the results of any contaminant findings. Rather, the industry hides behind claims that bottled water is held to the same safety standards as that of tap water.

The bottled water industry promotes an image of purity using promotional campaigns heavily saturated with images of mountain springs which leads consumers to believe they are buying a product that is purified beyond the water that comes out of their kitchen faucet.

Given the industry’s refusal to make available data to support their claims of superiority, consumer confidence in the purity of bottled water is not justified, says the EWG in their report.

Tests conducted by EWG found 10 popular brands of bottled water contained 38 chemical pollutants, with an average of 8 contaminants in each brand. More than one-third of the chemicals found are not regulated in bottled water.

California is currently the only state to enact strict standards to ensure carcinogens and other contaminants are not being sold as something purer than mountain stream pictured on the water bottle labels.""A newly released study by The Environmental Working Group (EWG) found some bottled waters are “no different than that... more