Posts Tagged ‘impact’
AP IMPACT: Delhi ignores own quake peril warnings (AP)
AP – The ramshackle neighborhoods of northeast Delhi are home to 2.2 million people packed along narrow alleys. Buildings are made from a single layer of brick. Extra floors are added to dilapidated buildings not meant to handle their weight. Tangles of electrical cables hang precariously everywhere.
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AP IMPACT: Meth fills hospitals with burn patients (AP)
AP – A crude new method of making methamphetamine poses a risk even to Americans who never get anywhere near the drug: It is filling hospitals with thousands of uninsured burn patients requiring millions of dollars in advanced treatment — a burden so costly that it’s contributing to the closure of some burn units.
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AP IMPACT: Health overhaul lags in states (AP)
AP – Here’s a reality check for President Barack Obama’s health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care.
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Huntsman departs race, impact in SC unclear (AP)
AP – Days before the South Carolina primary, Jon Huntsman dropped out of the presidential race Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney for the party’s nomination, becoming the latest Republican to call the GOP front-runner the strongest candidate to beat the Democratic incumbent.
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AP IMPACT: EPA rules threaten older power plants (AP)
AP – More than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to shut down and an additional 36 might have to close because of new federal air pollution regulations, according to an Associated Press survey.
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AP IMPACT: PSU culture explained away Sandusky (AP)
AP – The warning signs were there for more than a decade, disturbing indicators that Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was breaching boundaries with young boys — or maybe worse.
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AP IMPACT: More kids skip school shots in 8 states (AP)
AP – More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren’t getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found.
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