Remember this? Here’s some food for thought:
Drivers using hands-free phones were no better than those with the handheld variety, confirming previous studies…When using cell phones, drivers had slower reaction times and more accidents, and they drove inconsistently, sometimes approaching other cars and then falling back, he said.
When talking on the phone, the drivers had […]
Here’s an absolutely horrible version of the Smoking Pope’s Rubella.
The Tribune printed a story over the weekend:
Concurrent with the migration to the Web of professional video…there has been a nuclear explosion in the field of amateur video. The gatekeeper used to be “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” …but now the gates are wide open.
YouTube, the leader […]
Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona declared today that the evidence is now “indisputable” that secondhand smoke is an “alarming” public health hazard, and warned that measures like no-smoking sections don’t provide adequate protection. (New York Times 6/27/06)
Smoke is a genuine health hazard, especially for the waitresses and others who are exposed for hours at a […]
Here’s a great idea:
Residents would get bigger grants to remove chain-link fences from their property, professional rehabbers would become eligible to receive money to fix up historic homes, and there would be no limit on the number of these and other similar grants that residents could receive at one time, under changes to several existing […]
