Government refuses to ban soft PVC from children's toys
The government rejected a 1998 petition by environmental and health groups to remove soft PVC from toys for children five and younger. The CPSC voted 3 0 against the proposal, with officials saying soft plastics pose no risk to children. Separately a CDC study at Horace Memorial Hospital shows hospital staff wash hands only half the time and drop to about 10 percent when a senior doctor does not wash during rounds.
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
Mary Sheila Gall
Centers For Disease,Control and Prevention
Chicago
Horereaten Memorial
Reagan Home Sale Bid Rejected by Dixon Foundation
A private foundation that owns Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home in Dixon Illinois turned down a $420000 federal offer to convert the site into a national historic landmark. The foundation has invested over $10 million in the property since its purchase in 1980, aided by Norm Wymbs and his family foundation.
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Ronald Reagan
Dixon
Ill
Bush
Reagan
Norm, Wymbs
Pilot feared icing before Wellstone crash near Eveleth
NTSB findings show a pilot wanted to cancel a flight due to possible ice on the wings. The King Air A100 crashed near Eveleth Virginia Municipal Airport, killing Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, their daughter and five others.
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Sen
Paul Wellstone
Minnesota
National Transportation Safety Board
Eveleth-Virginia
King Air
Wellstone
D-Minn
Sheila
Teen heart lung transplant patient faces brain damage in Durham
Jesica Santillan, 17, who had a second transplant after the first was botched, was found to have severe brain damage Friday. Doctors and hospital officials clashed over test plans as the family faced grim news amid public scrutiny of Duke University Medical Center.
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Durham
N.C
Jesica Santillan
Jesica
Mack Mahoney
Duke University Medical Center
Mahoney
North Carolina
Karen Frush
Children’s Services
Frash
Duke
Richard Puff
Magdalena Santillan
Frush
William Fulkerson
Fulkerson
Guadalajara
United States
Beatriz Vazquez
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Uflas
Pe Cen Nas
Oe Perera
Ottawa
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Yoga
Karen Seibel
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Yoga.com
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