Natural gas mining has recently been entering a boom period in Pennsylvania, because of a technique called “fracking” that allows drillers to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons of salt and mineral laden water known as “brine” to penetrate the “natural gas,” which is primarily methane but lots of other compounds as well, trapped in
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Jack Webb Shilling for Fatima Cigrarettes
This audo advertisement (click the Fatima picture for the audio) for Fatima cigarettes originally aired on April 15, 1954 during a Dragnet episode called “The Big Pug.” Fatima, a Liggett and Myers tobacco company brand, was the sponsor of the episode and ran similar ads as “public service announcements”
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According to the 1870 federal census, one percent of the people owned 72 percent of all the wealth in the great industrial city of Pittsburgh. What’s more, just half of these wealthiest one percent (0.5% of the population) owned 59 percent, well more than half of all the wealth in historic Pittsburgh. In fact, all
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A group of scientists has published a report stating that the FDA was wrong to assert that the common chemical in plastics is harmless. BPA, according to the report,
From can affect brain and behavioral development in infants and kids.
The Food and Drug Administration ignored scientific evidence and used flawed methods when it determined that
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From CNN:
The discovery of excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs has prompted the Hong Kong authorities to expand health tests to include meat products imported from China, a senior official said Sunday.
The move follows the announcement late Saturday that Hong Kong testers had found 4.7 parts per million of melamine in
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