Road rage on the highway sparks expert warnings and fear
Psychologists and safety officials describe highway hostility as a testosterone driven, frustration fueled trait more common in men and in big urban areas. Experts warn that drivers with high achievement needs may lash out when blocked, risking violent responses from others armed or unpredictable.
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Allan Williams
The
Insurance Institute For Highway Safety
Los Angeles
Houston
Geller
Sanders
McDonald's goes smokeless nationwide and in Canada
McDonald's announced immediate smoke free policy for 1400 U S company owned restaurants and 253 Canadian stores. About 3600 of 9100 U S outlets will be smoke free with 2200 already banned last year. The move follows a Texas attorney general suit and supports federal bill to ban smoking in public places. Executives cited protecting children and corporate responsibility while noting a test run began a year ago.
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Chicago
McDonald’s
America
U.S
McDonald’s Corp
Oak Brook
Ill
John Banzhaf
Action
Washington
Texas
Secon
Ron Dusek
Dan Morales
Terri Capatosto
Fatherhood group to wage war on bad dads
Washington private foundations back a new National Fatherhood Initiative to push two parent parenting through public service ads and civic groups like the YMCA. Led by Wade Horn and David Blankenhorn, the effort argues family fragmentation harms children and aims to influence culture rather than policy with start-up funding from the Bradley Foundation.
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Washington
YMCA
National Fatherhood Initiative
Wade Horn
Children, Youth and Families
George Bush
David Blankenhorn
Institute For American Values
America
Blankenhorn
Bradley Foundation
Horn
Fossil find suggests earlier Homo erectus migration to Asia
San Francisco report details 1.8 million year old Homo erectus skull fragment from Java, dated 800,000 years earlier than thought. Scientists Swisher and Curtis say Asia and Africa hosted Homo erectus simultaneously, challenging the Acheulean-only migration theory and prompting search for new migration reasons. The Science journal release highlights global debate on pre-human history.
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San Francisco
Java
Africa
Asia
C.C. Swisher III
Garniss Curtis
Homo Erectus
Swisher
Swisher and
Curtis
Institute of Human Origins
Berkeley
Calif
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Science
Clark Howell
University of California-Berkeley
Bernard Wood
University of Liverpool
Wood
Lier
Europe
Philip Rightmire
State University of New York At Binghamton
Climate cycles may boost warming from greenhouse gases
A new study finds long term natural cycles across North America Europe and North Africa may amplify global warming in coming decades. Researchers Schlesinger and Ramankutty say cycles lasting about 65 to 70 years help explain earlier temperature rises and declines, though critics warn the data window may be too short to prove regular cycles.
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New York
North America
Europe
Michael Schlesinger
North Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Schlesinger
Navin Ramankutty
University of Linois At Urbana-Champaign
Nature
Syukuro Manabe
National Oceaniic
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