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- Reading List of the Day: Sustainability (April 2010)
- Reading List: Natural Gas Drilling Edition
- Review of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Allegheny Riverfront Park
- Readings for 16 March 2010
- Fatima Cigarette Ad from Dragnet
- Reading of the Day 14 March 2010
- Photo of the Day: Honey Bee Visiting a Red Clover Flower
- Readings of the Day 12 March 2010
- Economic Inequality Matters
- Photo of the Day: Hillary Clinton During the 2008 St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Public Health Archive
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Reading List: Natural Gas Drilling Edition
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No CommentsNatural 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... -
Fatima Cigarette Ad from Dragnet
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsThis 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... -
Economic Inequality Matters
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 1 CommentAccording 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... -
Bisphenol A (BPA) Is Dangerous After All
Posted on October 29, 2008 | No CommentsA 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... -
Melamine Now Found in Eggs in China
Posted on October 26, 2008 | No CommentsFrom 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...
