MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun violence has left policymakers shooting in the dark as they craft gun control measures without much evidence of what works.That could change with President Barack Obama's order Wednesday to ease research...
EPA proposes compromise on Navajo Generating Station's emissions
Label: Business The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing regulations to reduce emissions from the massive Navajo Generating Station...
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India Ink: A Hospital Network With a Vision
Label: WorldFixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work.As the United States struggles to find new business models for health care, some innovators are looking to other industries, ones that provide high-quality services for low prices. In a recent article in The New Yorker, for example, Atul Gawande suggests that the Cheesecake Factory restaurant chain — with its size, central control and accountability...
Commentary: Background Checks? Yes, but Leave Video Games Alone
Label: TechnologyCOMMENTARY | I have mixed feelings toward the White House‘s gun violence response. I agree that background checks should be required before people are allowed to buy a firearm and that an assault weapon ban should be reinstated into law. While limiting the number of bullets in a weapon’s magazine will decrease the number of deaths in a mass shooting, the public does not need high-capacity magazines....
American Idol's New Judges Make Their Debut
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch American Idol 01/16/2013 at 11:00 PM EST From left: Randy Jackson, Mariah Carey, Ryan Seacrest, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban Michael Becker/FOX. American Idol is back! Season 12 premiered Wednesday night with the first auditions in New York City. And fans...
Buddhist temples push to get storm-relief money moving
Label: Business When the Venerable Thich Quang Thanh asked members of his Buddhist temple in Santa Ana to donate money to help victims of Superstorm...
Jan
15
Dreamliner Jet Makes Emergency Landing in Japan Due to Battery
Label: WorldTOKYO (AP) — Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet. All Nippon Airways said a cockpit message showed battery problems and a burning smell were detected in the cockpit and the cabin, forcing the 787 on a domestic flight to land at Takamatsu airport...
New photos of BlackBerry X10 with QWERTY keyboard leak
Label: TechnologyNew images of Research In Motion’s (RIMM) first BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard have leaked ahead of the handset’s unveiling later this month. BlackBerry blog BlackBerry Empire on Monday evening published a pair of photos showing the face of the upcoming N-series smartphone along with the home screen and the app launcher.[More from BGR: HTC One SV review]As...
It's a Boy for Elton John
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 01/15/2013 at 10:00 PM ET George Pimentel/WireImageElton John is a father again!The musician and David Furnish welcomed their second child, son Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, via surrogate on Friday, Jan. 11 in Los Angeles, the couple confirm to HELLO.Born at...
With laughter and tears, fans bid farewell to Huell Howser
Label: Business Everyone thought they knew what Huell Howser would have said if he'd been standing outside Griffith Observatory just before...
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