Archive for June, 2010
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Last week, the city of San Francisco went ahead and took a step that many cell phone makers and at least a few safety groups believe, is unnecessary. The city voted to require that all cell phone retailers have warning signs displaying the amount of radiation emitted by each device.
The ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
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Ford Motor Company is all set to roll out its new inflatable seatbelts - a Ford auto safety innovation - on the 2011 Explorers.
According to reviewers who managed to test the seatbelts, the undeployed seatbelt is padded and much softer than regular seatbelts. This should ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010
California investigators are probing the extent of a Department of Motor Vehicles bribing scandal. A number of DMV employees are accused of taking bribes in order to give licenses to those who were not eligible for them. Investigators believe that these employees were bribed to give licenses to senior citizens, ...
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Going by Debrahlee Lorenzana’s account, the men working at a Citibank office in New York are either sexually repressed Neanderthals, or have spent much of their life in a cloistered Middle Eastern country. The 33-year-old single mother is taking her former employer to court for firing her because she was ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
It’s not the kind of thought that will comfort you as you drive on California's streets. But the fact is that millions of Californians are believed to be driving without auto insurance. Insurance can be expensive, and experts estimate that the numbers of Californians who possess minimum auto insurance, dropped ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
The Japanese are more likely to play video games while driving, increasing the chances of an accident. The English are some of the most aware motorists - they are the least likely to engage in distracted driving. Overall, approximately 15% of motorists claim to having had sex while driving, while ...
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