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Listerine maker sued over cancer test
Studies have linked the high alcohol content of some mouthwashes to oral cancer. Now Oral Cancer Prevention International (OCPI), a New York company, has filed a law suit in New Jersey claiming that Johnson & Johnson, one of the world’s biggest companies, interfered with a distribution contract it had for the test as it did not want to lend credence to the link between mouthwash and the disease.
-The Telegraph
Danica Patrick to announce move to NASCAR
Danica Patrick will hold a news conference Thursday and is expected to announce her 2012 move to NASCAR.
-ClarionLedger.com
Kraft cutting US coffee prices by about 6 percent
Kraft is lowering coffee prices in the U.S. by about 6 percent, one week after Smucker announced a similar move.
-The Sydney Morning Herald
13-Year-Old Has a Solar Power Breakthrough
7th grader Aidan Dwyer was walking in the woods during the winter, and looking up, he noticed something about the bare branches above him. They didn’t appear to be growing randomly. So he took some measurements of the angles of the branches, crunched some numbers, and wouldn’t you know it, he found that the ubiquitous Fibonacci Sequence was behind it all. He suspected there was a reason behind this. That trees were using this pattern to gather more light.
-The European Union Times
"Planes" follow "Cars" in the Disney movie lineup
If dinosaurs still ruled the world is one idea coming from Pixar. So is something about inside in the mind. The titles haven't been chosen, but Pixar, Disney and Marvel are all spinning tales over the next three years that ought to offer something for almost everybody.
-The San Diego Union-Tribune
World's Biggest Solar-Powered Boat On Tour
The man behind the world's biggest solar-powered boat has said there is a "huge potential" to use alternative energy in the industry as the ship docks in Hong Kong.
-Sky News
Mystery of unknown figure skater solved
The mystery of the unknown figure skater appears to have been solved.
-Washington Post
OC Boy, 7, Makes A Name For Himself Climbing 14,505-Foot Mount Whitney In Single Day
A 7-year-old Orange County boy can stand tall after climbing Mount Whitney in a single day. Tyler Armstrong of Yorba Linda reached the summit of the 14,505-foot mountain on July 26. It took Tyler and his father 7 hours and 50 minutes to hike from a base camp at 8,500 feet.
-CBS Los Angeles
Donations fly in for boy suffering from cancer after heartless thieves swipe jug of money
Daily News readers opened their wallets after thieves swiped a jug of money donated in honor of a 5-year-old boy with cancer. "This story hit us in the heart," said Nicholas DiBenedetto of Primary Care Ambulance on Staten Island, which donated $500 to the St. Baldrick's Foundation cancer charity after a story on the theft ran in Wednesday's News.
-NYDailyNews.com
Value Added: Sometimes success comes from running toward a crisis
Instead of sitting out the Great Recession, which has stifled many entrepreneurs, Wellisch and Klein used the crisis as a selling point to potential clients: You need our product more than ever.
-The Washington Post
Sticking it to China
A factory in rural Georgia helps East Asia eat
-The Economist Newspaper
Disney shuts down production of 'Lone Ranger'
Walt Disney Studios has shut down production of "The Lone Ranger," a big-budget film starring Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title character, a person close to the production confirmed.
-Los Angeles Times
Bass estimated at 19 years old caught in Montana
KALISPELL, Mont. - A 10-year-old Montana boy fishing with a rubber worm caught a largemouth bass that state wildlife officials say could be nearly twice as old as he is.
-Philly.com
QR Codes Aim to Curb Drunken Driving in Texas
As Super Bowl XLV neared, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) had more on its mind than which team would win the big game. In a state with more than 25 million residents, the potential for alcohol-related catastrophe was enormous — especially since in 2009, Texas saw 1,235 deaths, more than any other state that year, from crashes involving drivers with blood alcohol concentrations of 0.08 percent or higher.
-Government Technology
Boy survives after 20 minutes under water in Pacific Ocean
LONG BEACH, Wash. - A 12-year-old boy who spent as long as 20 minutes immersed in the Pacific Ocean surf before he was rescued is amazing his family. "Maybe there is a miracle that's happening here," the boy's father, Chad Ostrander of Spanaway, Wash., told reporters Tuesday.
-azcentral.com
U.S. blocks $1 million Italian supercar
Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said "Not so fast."
-CNNMoney
Iceberg Harvesting Can End Third-World Drought, Scientist Says
A French entrepreneur backed by a software company claims to have proved that he can tow giant icebergs across the world to end drought conditions.
-FOX News
Campus Overload - Share your tips for surviving freshman year
The first year of college is so important. If you make it through that first year, academically and socially, you have a better shot at making it to graduation day.
-The Washington Post
Tuskegee Airmen’s ranks may be smaller, but these veterans are still flying high
They once numbered 15,000 — 992 pilots, 200 navigators, bombardiers and administrators, as well as legions of crew members and support and medical personnel who came to be known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
-The Washington Post
Small bookstores thrive amid change
Technology that has dramatically changed the way consumers buy, read and keep books has had an unexpected consequence. The rise of online bookstores and digital-reading devices such as Kindles and iPads is indirectly fostering a resurgence of independent bookstores.
-Arizona Republic
Permanent Fund reaches $40.1 billion
The amount of investment earnings allocated to dividends is based on a five-year rolling average of Permanent Fund performance. Last year, nearly 641,600 Alaskans were deemed eligible to receive dividend checks of $1,281.
-Anchorage Daily New
Tornado-proofing homes? $1 straps would help
The twister that killed 46 people in Tuscaloosa has provided a national lesson on how to build and reinforce homes, often with just relatively minor changes, a new study found. Things like $1 straps, stronger shingles, more anchors and thicker vinyl siding could have prevented much of the damage to houses on the fringes of the twister.
-MSNBC
IKEA's far from St. Louis, so enterprising folks drive, deliver
One Saturday each month, Emily and Mark Schmitz make a road trip to Ikea. The south St. Louis County couple usually hit the road around 3 a.m. Once they get to the Bolingbrook, Ill., store, nearly 300 miles away, they split up to be more efficient. They end up spending about eight hours at the store, including two hours loading up their truck and trailer.
-Seattle Times
Blinding Lasers Replace Guns for Peacekeeping
The laser’s emerald beam is so piercingly brilliant that it temporarily blinds and disorients a would-be assailant. Few attackers would push on toward the Marine wielding the light-based weapon.
-Bloomberg
Goats could roam Badger's prairie
To bring back the native prairie that once flourished in the land now occupied by the Badger Army Ammunition Plant, plans are underway to introduce roaming herds of sheep and goats to devour invasive brush.
-Baraboo News Republic
N.Y. Pilot Rescued After Treading Water for 17 Hours in Lake Huron
A New York pilot whose small plane crashed and flipped in Lake Huron was rescued Wednesday off Michigan's eastern coast after treading water without a life jacket for more than 17 hours, authorities said.
-Fox News
The five best small towns in America
Three weeks and 25,000 miles later, five teams competing in the Best of the Road contest — sponsored by Rand McNally in collaboration with USA TODAY — have turned in their maps and car keys, consulted with a panel of judges and come up with the winners: five towns full of friendly people, great scenery, terrific food, patriotic fervor and just plain fun.
-USA TODAY
Tortoise gets artificial wheel at vet hospital
A 12-year-old African tortoise that recently had its front left leg amputated due to injury is now moving just fine, thanks to a swiveling wheel attached to his shell by doctors at Washington State University's veterinary hospital.
-USA TODAY
The Bill Gates better toilet challenge
The Gates Foundation is challenging universities to build a better toilet—latrines that are hygienic, generate energy and don’t require running water or a septic system. The foundation is giving $41.5 million toward that end, and proposals include toilets powered by heat, microwaves or solar panels.
-Chicago Tribune
Arthur W. Radford, a 563-foot ship docked in Philadelphia, would become largest artificial reef on Eastern Seaboard
With almost every regulatory hurdle cleared, planners believe they are about two weeks away from sinking a 563-foot former Navy destroyer off the coast of Maryland to create the largest artificial reef on the Eastern Seaboard.
-Baltimore Sun
Random thoughts on the passing scene:
When you consider what an enormous windfall gain it is to be born in America, it is painful to hear some people complain bitterly that someone else got a bigger windfall gain than they did. Read on...
-Jewish World Review
Real-Time traffic system to reduce traffic congestion in New York City
In New York City, streets and traffic jams seem almost synonymous, but to reduce the city’s high traffic congestion, on Monday, July 18, officials released a new technology-based traffic management system to monitor and adjust traffic in Midtown Manhattan.
-Government Technology
Federal web site consolidation in the works - out goes fiddlinforesters.gov
The announcement follows on the heels of President Barack Obama’s “Campaign to Cut Waste.” The campaign seeks to eliminate unnecessary and stupid spending, including reducing the more than 2,000 federal government URLs in existence. One example included the now-defunct fiddlinforesters.gov, which once hosted the music of U.S. Forest Service rangers using U.S. taxpayer money.
-Government Technology
Three companies thriving in these hard economic times
One manufacturer began operations during the low point of the Great Recession. Another reopened during it. And a third invested more money and hired more employees.
-The Seattle Times
Film companies reducing on-screen tobacco use
Three film companies have drastically reduced smoking in their movies aimed at children and teens, thanks in part to their policies to reduce on-screen tobacco use, a new study says.
-The Washington Times
Missouri lengthens yellow lights for safety
Missouri is lengthening yellow lights at intersections in an attempt to make them safer. Previously the timing of yellow lights was determined by how many cars needed to be squeezed through.
-Exploding Cigar
Quiet Pavement
Freeway noise is one of the biggest public nuisances of modern society, and billions of dollars have been spent erecting sound barriers to muffle the din of constant traffic on America’s freeways and thoroughfares.
-Government Technology
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