More questions over safety at the Grand National

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High drama and low spirits

Since the death of her daughter on a level crossing at the end of 2005, Tina Hughes has been working to improve their safety.

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VIDEO: Mother’s level crossing safety fight

Two pupils from a school in Milton, Washington State, have been praised for steering their bus to safety when the driver suffered an apparent heart attack.

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VIDEO: Pupils praised for saving school bus

A problem with wires in a heart defibrillator is the industry’s third highly visible safety episode in seven years, inviting discussion of a greater role for the F.D.A.

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Flaws in St. Jude Heart Defibrillator Shake the Industry

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those arrested for even minor violations may be strip-searched before being admitted to jail, saying safety concerns outweigh personal privacy rights. The court’s conservatives ruled against a New Jersey man who was strip-searched after being mistakenly arrested on an outstanding warrant. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court upholds jail strip searches, including for minor offenses

An independent probe finds “significant issues” over working hours, pay and safety on Apple production lines in China, but says improvements will be made.

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China factory report blames Apple

The man in charge of ensuring the safety of miners at West Virginia's Upper Big Branch coal mine pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he helped conceal hazardous conditions from federal inspectors.

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Mine exec pleads guilty in deadly blast

The cell-phone video shows a scene straight out of hell: a darkness lit only by billowing smoke, tinted orange and red from nearby flames, as a vehicle hurtles toward safety.

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Family films frantic escape from wildfire

Beth Milito and her husband bought a 2011 Toyota Sienna based on friends’ recommendations and the minivan’s overall four-star safety rating to protect their four children. But tucked into the details of the government’s crash test results was another rating that Milito said she never saw, which now has her wondering about her own safety. The front passenger seat on Milito’s Sienna received two out of five stars on the frontal crash test, a fall from the top five-star rating for that seat on the Sienna’s 2010 and older models. Read full article > >

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Female dummy makes her mark on male-dominated crash tests

Dance, in its very essence of live movement, can never keep still. As performers on stage shift their bodies, using them to fill visual and musical spaces that most never even realized were empty, we audience members evolve along with them. The opposite of dance is stasis, atrophy, the crippling that comes when one cannot or will not move, because it’s safer to keep still rather than risk breaking free or connecting with another. But in that safety also creeps loneliness, because dialogue thrives on conversational motion.

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Dance the Gap: An Interview with Choreographer Parijat Desai

Every night, rickety wooden boats ferry a stream of refugees, some walking and some wounded, to the safety of Turkey as the bloodshed in Syria escalates.

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Altinozu Township Journal: Syrian Refugees Cross Into Turkey Under Cover of the Night

The president got a joyful and sustained ovation before and after his address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a bipartisan recognition of his contribution to the safety and security of Israel. Oh, that would Israeli President Shimon Peres. Befitting his ceremonial role (and lack of policy role in Israel), Peres spoke in platitudes about the hope for peace and assured us that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants peace, too. He also issued some tough words about Israel’s ability to defend itself. Read full article > >

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Jennifer Rubin: Obama goes to AIPAC

Towed to safety in Indian Ocean.

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Power Fails on Italian Cruise Ship

The federal government is doing a poor job of coordinating its responsibilities in dozens of areas, including food safety, breast cancer research, assistance to small business owners and home buyers and background investigations for federal job applicants — a disorganization that could be costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars annually, according to a new report. Read full article > >

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GAO: Overlapping government programs cost billions

I’m sure I’ll get an earful from certain readers for this, but I can’t for the life of me see how any health-conscious person can think drinking raw — that is, unpasteurized — milk is a good idea. That opinion’s bolstered by a CDC report issued Tuesday. A survey of dairy-related disease outbreaks from 1993 to 2006 found that 60 percent of reported illnesses related to dairy consumption involved unpasteurized milk. The numbers themselves aren’t huge — 1,571 cases of illness and 202 hospitalizations — but there were two deaths. Read full article > >

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CDC renews warning about raw milk