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UPDATE: Convictions Result from Bhopal Tragedy

June 10, 2010

In a previous blog, we outlined the two theories of a 1984 tragedy in Bhopal that resulted in approximately 15,000 deaths. On Monday, June 7, 2010 (nearly 16 years after the incident) 7 former Union Carbide senior employees were convicted of “death by negligence” by an Indian court.  The sentence was two years in jail [...]

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Recreational Water Illnesses

June 4, 2010

Last year we wrote a blog about preventing pool injuries, specifically slipping and drowning. However, there’s a lesser known risk from a pool – getting sick from swimming. This is officially known as “recreational water illness” or RWI, and normally involves diarrhea. RWI is estimated to affect approximately 1,000 people a year (according to WebMD) [...]

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Multiple Beauty Salon Car Crashes

May 27, 2010

On May 25, 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released new data about Toyota’s unintended acceleration issues, increasing the number of deaths potentially linked to the issue to 89.  Additionally, the NHTSA stated that nearly 6,200 complaints regarding acceleration issues in Toyotas have been received since 2000. The acceleration issues have already resulted [...]

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Tay Bridge Collapse

May 19, 2010

On December 28, 1879, the Tay Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapsed as an express train was traveling across. All 75 people on board were killed. The bridge had been tested and approved by the Board of Trade only 19 months prior and opened to traffic just over 2 years before the collapse. The failure of [...]

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Known Terror Suspect Boards Plane

May 13, 2010

On May 1, 2010 authorities found a car bomb in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square in New York City (NYC). The bomb had been ignited, but thankfully failed to explode and was disarmed before any damage was done. The vehicle identification number (VIN) number had been removed from the dashboard and the door [...]

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NASA Balloon and Telescope Payload Crash

May 7, 2010

The plan for the telescope was exciting.  It was a nuclear compton telescope (NCT), built to map gamma rays, to aid in locating astrophysical objects like supernovae, pulsars and black holes.  The telescope was being launched by balloon from  Alice Springs, Australia for an optimal view.  The NCT team had been hard at work and [...]

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Oil Rig Explosion

April 28, 2010

On April 20, 2010 about 10 pm a huge explosion rocked a semi-submersible drilling oil rig about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil rig was called the Deepwater Horizon and was owned by Transocean Ltd and leased to the British Petroleum Company through September 2013. The oil [...]

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The Future of NASA

April 21, 2010

A previous blog discussed a shortfall in the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) budget.  The lack of funding put NASA’s organization goals in jeopardy, including a planned return mission to the moon.  Then-President George W. Bush had tasked NASA to return to the moon five years ago and NASA has been working toward this [...]

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Chinatown Fire NYC

April 15, 2010

On April 11, 2010, a fire broke out in a store on the first level of an apartment building on the 200 block of Grand Street in Chinatown, New York City. The fire would eventually reach 7 alarms, requiring 250 firefighters to fight. Once firefighters were able to enter the building the next day, they [...]

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Deadly Mine Explosion in West Virginia

April 9, 2010

Around 3 pm on April 5, 2010 in Montcoal, West Virginia, a huge explosion rocked the Upper Big Branch South mine owned by Massey Energy Company.  At least 25 miners were killed, both from the explosion itself and suffocation caused by high levels of dangerous gases.  There are still 4 miners missing.  The missing miners [...]

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