Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Sep 14, 2008 |
Scientists are urging U.S. regulators to regularly screen the health and environmental effects of tiny engineered particles used in more than 800 consumer products, and step up oversight of the nanotechnology industry.
Source: Delaware Online |
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| Sep 24, 2008 |
''Senate OKs Foster Care Reform; Bush to Get Bill'' Michigan's foster children may get three more years of help from the federal government -- to age 21 -- and aunts, uncles, grandparents and other relative caregivers may be in line, too, for some financial aid. Source: Detroit Free Press |
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| Oct 15, 2008 |
''Getting Workers on Track to Invest Early and Often'' As traditional pensions fade from the retirement landscape and workers are forced to take a lot more responsibility for their own financial futures, employers are rolling out a variety of features to help workers prepare for retirement. Source: The Washington Post |
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| Nov 7, 2008 |
"Twenty or thirty years ago, traditional financial institutions fled neighborhoods like Watts, and guys like Tom Nix, co-founder of the biggest chain of check cashers and payday lenders in Southern California, rushed into the vacuum." Source: The New York Times Magazine |
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| Nov 18, 2008 |
''Eating Safely and Mercifully'' ''California voters’ overwhelming endorsement of Proposition 2 in California, a ballot initiative banning the use of battery cages in egg production, gestation crates in swine production and veal crates, shows just how far consumers will go to make sure the meat they are eating is both more humane and ultimately safer for the dinner table.'' Source: The Hill's Congress Blog |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Nov 30, 2008 |
''Federal Rules Separate Kids from Abusive Families'' The best interest of the child' is the philosophy that should drive child welfare decisions, but the rules that come with federal funding haven't always cooperated. Source: Detroit Free Press |
Health Topics |
| Dec 1, 2008 |
If you think of life on Earth as a magnificent incarnation of natural technology, then life has the classic double-edged character of all powerful technologies. This technology has produced a wondrous diversity of beings displaying a gorgeous marriage of form and function on hierarchical levels that span the range from cells to rain forests and beyond. Yet it also has created pathogens that indifferently kill millions of people each year, ecological disasters that wipe out species, and intelligent beings that deliberately perpetrate catastrophes on similar scales.
Source: Chemical & Engineering News |
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| Dec 10, 2008 |
"The government needs a more comprehensive plan for studying the risks of nanotechnology, the National Research Council said Wednesday. While the committee that prepared the report did not evaluate the safety of nanomaterials, it was critical Source: |
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| Dec 19, 2008 |
Report Faults U.S. Strategy for Nanotoxicology Research The U.S. government lacks an effective plan for ensuring the safety of nanotechnology, a new report by the National Research Council (NRC) concludes. The report, released last week, finds that the current plan for coordinating federal research on environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology amounts to an ad hoc collection of research priorities from the 25 federal agencies that make up the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), which coordinates federal nanotech programs. What's needed, it argues, are an overall vision and a plan for how to get there and to come up with the money to do so. Source: Science Magazine |
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| Jan 9, 2009 |
''Practical Benefits Drawing Bankers to Unbanked Effort'' "When San Francisco was establishing a program three years ago to move unbanked consumers into the financial mainstream, banks and credit unions signed on because "it was a good political opportunity to generate good will," said Matt Fellowes." Source: American Banker |
