Denver letter hoax triggers evacuations at McCain office
Authorities evacuated about 40 people from a Colorado building after a letter to McCain contained threatening language and powder was deemed safe. Seventeen to nineteen people were examined or quarantined at hospitals or outside the office, while officials investigated the return address and inmate name on the envelope. No powder was found in the New Hampshire or Colorado letters, and the Denver letter is considered a hoax.
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Bradenton
Fla
Manatee County
United States
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Terence McElroy
Department of Agriculture
Colorado
Lyon
Malcolm Wiley
Secret Service
Denver
New Hampshire
McCain
Sky Ridge Medical Center
Linda Watson
Arctic melting opens Northern Sea lane as ships reach Barrow
Rapid ice loss in Alaska's Arctic expands navigable water amid forecasts of summer ice free conditions. Coast Guard opens temporary stations at Barrow and Prudhoe Bay to manage growing tanker, fishing, and cruise traffic while scientists warn ice remains unpredictable and spills, mishaps possible.
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Barrow
Alaska
Arctic
Coast Guard
United States
Gene Brooks
Canada
Northwest Passage
Atlantic
Pacific
Point Barrow
Healy
Brooks
Prudhoe Bay
Chuck Cross
North Pole
Ore
U.S
Giant crack expands on Greenland's northern glacier
Scientists report a seven mile long crack in the Petermann glacier in northern Greenland with an 11 square mile chunk calved between July 10 and 24. The fragment equals about half of Manhattan, while ongoing fractures raise fears of rapid disintegration and accelerated sea level rise. Experts warn the crack nears the glacier front, signaling potential large ice loss in coming months.
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Washington
Greenland
Arctic
Petermann
Hemisphere
Jason Box
Byrd Polar Research Center
Ohio State University
Manhattan
Box
Waleed Abdalati
Center For the Study of Earth From
Space
The
University of Colorado
Alabama workers face insurance surcharge for obesity
Alabama's 37,527 state employees may pay 25 dollars a month for insurance starting January 2010 if BMI 35 or higher and no progress after screenings. A year later nonprogressing workers face the charge. progress avoids the levy. The policy targets obesity amid rising state concerns and a national obesity study.
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Alabama
Deep South
State Employees’ Insurance Board
Robert Wagstaff
Tim Colley
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Trust For America’s Health
E K. Dausin
Montgomery
Caufin
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South Lyon Metro Fire Rescue Authority
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