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Studying active volcanoes can be dangerous. Which is why a group of scientists from around the world came together to simulate volcanic blasts. What they’re learning will help them at a real eruption.
The promoters of a 50th anniversary Woodstock festival can still attempt to put on their event in August, though they face a steep uphill battle for financing and permits.
De Blasio is the 23rd Democrat to run, and not the only mayor. He won his current office from the back of a big primary pack, something he is mindful of as even allies have warned against a 2020 bid.
“I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives,” the congresswoman said.
“Then, it was people who couldn’t get access to health care. Now it’s this cultlike atmosphere of people who are refusing to immunize.”
Caps on shift lengths for medical residents were implemented in New York to improve patient safety. Given the effects of sleep deprivation on emotional capacity and residents’ well-being, why risk longer hours?
The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, site of the nation’s worst nuclear accident, will shut down by the end of September. Backers failed to secure subsidies to keep the plant operating.
Most New York City residents oppose a plan to charge a fee to drivers who enter the crowded city center. But studies show that once such charges are in place, public opinion shifts in favor.
Using personal papers, telegrams, biographies, unpublished interviews and letters, author Brian Jay Jones gives readers a comprehensive view of the complex, multifaceted creator who became a giant.
Smithsonian Folkways archivist and Pete Seeger expert Jeff Place talks about Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, due out on what would have been Seeger’s 100th birthday.