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2012's 'good news' stories
2012 saw jobs returning to the US, health concerns improve in historic numbers, and more.
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Six car maintenance tips for teens
Many teens know little or nothing about the basics of auto repair, an AutoMD.com survey finds. Since preventative car maintenance is important for safety, here are easy do-it-yourself auto repair and care tips for teens – and their parents:
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Top 5 bullying myths
We all know that bullying is wrong but you may know even less about bullying than you originally thought. Monitor correspondent Stephanie Hanes debunks 5 popular misconceptions.
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Six major food recalls
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Food Safety Act: five food recalls that rattled the industry
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Ground turkey recall: Why the lag between illnesses and a public alert?
Cargill launched a voluntary recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey on Wednesday. The government’s investigation into the salmonella outbreak went through a lengthy research process in which results had to be confirmed.
08/04/2011 09:40 pm -
Movie industry hasn't stopped smoking, but it has cut back a lot
Top movies in 2010 depicited far fewer smoking scenes than in 2005, especially films for kids and teens, a new report finds. Movie companies with antismoking policies cut tobacco scenes the most.
07/14/2011 08:46 pm -
Opinion Peace is profitable: time for the US to invest
The US ranked an abysmally low 82 on the recent Global Peace Index. Unless America invests in the structures to promote peace, it will continue to find itself at war. The peace dividend is worth it: The world could have saved $8 trillion if it had been at peace last year.
07/11/2011 11:20 am -
Europe's E. coli outbreak: Does new food safety law prevent that in US?
A new US food safety regimen became law in January. It expands government regulation of growers, but it's not clear Congress will allot enough funds to implement and enforce the law.
06/10/2011 02:59 pm -
Why it's so hard to win the war against US oxycodone epidemic
Oxycodone dispensers are protected. Abusers are hard to ID. And the drug claims more lives than cocaine, heroin, meth.
06/01/2011 12:30 pm -
Zombie apocalypse CDC campaign crashes website
Zombie apocalypse CDC: The Zombie Apocalypse campaign is a social media effort by the CDC's Public Health and Preparedness center to spread the word about the June 1 start of hurricane season.
05/20/2011 10:34 am -
Grand Canyon crash victim survives plummet
Grand Canyon crash: a man drove his car over the edge of the Grand Canyon but was saved by a tree 200 feet down.
04/30/2011 12:54 am -
Radioactive milk found on West Coast, but levels are 'minuscule'
Radioactive milk linked to the Japan nuclear crisis has been detected in samples from California and Washington State. But the amounts are so tiny that they pose no health risk, officials say.
03/31/2011 06:28 pm -
Arizona limits abortions: how national battle is being fought in states
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer this week signed legislation outlawing abortions performed on the basis of race or gender. Kansas and Ohio are among other states considering abortion restrictions.
03/30/2011 08:09 pm -
Cities create 'food czars': Can they get residents to eat their sprouts?
A handful of cities are targeting obesity and hunger by putting a 'food czar' in charge of food-related policy – from getting greens in local markets to coordinating inner city microfarms.
02/09/2011 02:29 pm -
New York poised to ban smoking in Central Park, Times Square
Smokers in New York will have fewer places to puff when Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs a new law banning smoking in the city's parks and on its beaches.
02/03/2011 07:12 pm -
Obama signs historic food safety law: Will it make dinner safer?
The food safety law aims to secure the farm-to-table food chain. But some Republicans are threatening to hold up funding, saying the food supply is already '99.999 percent safe.'
01/04/2011 07:00 pm -
Fewer bad eggs? Food safety bill is revived, heads to Obama's desk
Landmark food safety bill, all but dead because its funding was tied to the ill-fated omnibus spending bill, was revived by the Senate Sunday. Obama is expected to sign it by Christmas.
12/20/2010 01:43 pm -
Amid persisting economic duress, worries rise about suicides
High-profile deaths – the latest being the mayor of Springfield, Ill., and the Florida school board shooter – have common backdrops of economic duress. Workplace suicides, too, rose during Great Recession.
12/16/2010 03:55 pm -
Food Safety Act: five food recalls that rattled the industry
The Senate's passage of the Food Safety Act, the most sweeping food-safety law in 70 years has thrown a spotlight on the US food supply. Here are five of the most recent high-profile food safety cases:
11/30/2010 06:46 pm -
Senate clears bill to tighten food safety. Will House go along?
Food Safety Modernization Act passed the Senate Tuesday on a bipartisan vote. The legislation, which gives the US added powers to inspect and recall, moves to the House, where hurdles remain, especially over cost.
11/30/2010 02:13 pm -
Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of November 15, 2010
Readers write in about issues of food safety, Britain's budget cuts, and help for Pakistan's landless poor.
11/15/2010 03:24 pm -
Egg recall: DeCoster-linked farm releases contaminated eggs. Again.
Egg recall this past week involves megafarmer Jack DeCoster, whose farm was part of this summer's huge 550 million egg recall.
11/09/2010 06:00 pm -
Food safety: How to keep our global menu off the recall list
As the food recall list grows and food imports flood into the US, it may be time to revamp America's 70-year-old laws on food safety.
10/23/2010 10:56 am -
Diet drugs: FDA panel rejects weight-loss pill
Diet drugs are competing to win government approval. But a Food and Drug Administration panel rejects the second of three diet drugs: Arena's lorcaserin.
09/18/2010 01:46 pm -
Egg recall: Does it rank with other major food recalls?
[Editor's note: For an updated list of brand names and plants involved in the egg recall as of Aug. 26, click here.] Egg recall? It's just the latest in a number of high-profile food recalls in the United States in the past five years. The rate of major food-borne illnesses is down since the 1996-98 period, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported earlier this year. But with food production concentrated in large companies with regional or nationwide distribution, the US has seen several major food recalls. Among the biggest (click the right arrow for each new item):
08/23/2010 07:31 pm -
Editorial Board Blog Why Hollywood movies with smoking scenes need an R rating
A report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds Hollywood has cut its depictions of smoking by half from 2005 -- which helps explain why the percent of teens trying cigarettes also went down during the same period.
08/23/2010 03:14 pm -
The New Economy Egg recall: Are your eggs on the list?
Egg recall springs from possible salmonella contamination at one of America's largest egg companies.
08/18/2010 12:21 am -
The Monitor's View Chicken Little over swine flu: Learning from the H1N1 scare
Last year's scare over a potential H1N1 flu epidemic was a bust, the WHO now indicates. With reports of another scare over a "superbug" supposedly from India, officials and media need to act with caution and restraint without stoking fears.
08/13/2010 04:38 pm -
Top 5 most stressful jobs
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater – who quit and made a dramatic exit down an aircraft emergency slide on Aug. 9 – is the latest symbol of stress on the job. But he's hardly alone. With more employees electronically tethered to their jobs 24/7, greater competition in the workplace for fewer jobs due to a sluggish economy, and other factors may create more job-related anxiety. On the other hand, some of the jobs considered most stressful are also the most coveted. Here's a short list of the most stressful jobs of 2010, based on information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Careercast.com.
08/11/2010 04:34 pm
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