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Worst Hurricane Season Ever

September 26, 2005
It's official: This is the worst hurricane season in recorded history. According to historian Eric Gross, "Hurricane Katrina [is] the most expensive natural disaster in our nation's history, even when damages are converted to a constant-dollar figure to account for... continued

Watching Baseball is Good for Your Health

September 26, 2005
Newswise - When is a medical emergency really an emergency? Not during key Boston Red Sox games, according to the Children's Hospital in Boston. Using Nielsen ratings, they found that the bigger the game, the quieter the emergency room. The... continued

But Baseball Mitts May be Bad for You

September 26, 2005
Newswise - Despite improvements in the baseball mitts used by professional baseball players, the gloves still do not adequately protect players' hands from injury, according to a new study. Dr. Adam Ginn says, "We found signs of early blood vessel... continued

Air Pollution Kills

September 25, 2005
Experts may be significantly underestimating air pollution's role in causing early death, according to a team of researchers who studied twenty years of auto emissions data to learn the effect on Los Angeles residents. Also, the closer children live to... continued

Asteroids May Influence Global Warming

September 25, 2005
Dust from asteroids entering the atmosphere may influence Earth's weather more than previously believed, according to an article in the journal Nature. Researchers have found evidence that dust from an asteroid burning up as it passed through Earth's atmosphere formed... continued

Rita Disintegrating Inland

September 24, 2005
As Hurricane Rita came ashore near Beaumont, Texas, it wasdowngraded to a tropical storm and continues to weaken as itmoves inland. The system is moving slowly and is expected todump upwards of 10 inches of rain across east Texas andLouisiana,... continued

Huge Watch Area but Rita Weakens as N.O. Floods Again

September 23, 2005
Hurricane force winds are expected to strike from PortO'Connor, Texas to Morgan City, Louisana tomorrow morning,but Hurricane Rita is not at this time gaining energy. It isnow a Category 3 hurricane with winds up to 125 MPH and maywell weaken... continued

Global Warming: This is It

September 23, 2005
Do the recent hurricanes have anything to do with global warming? UK environmental head Sir John Lawton says this is what global warming looks like, when it starts to affect the world we live in. Michael McCarthy reports in the... continued

How to Fight Student Sleepiness

September 23, 2005
It's been discovered that fidgety ADHD kids probably don't need medicine--what they really need is more sleep. From first grade through kindergarten, students have a hard time staying awake in class. College and high school kids slug high caffeine coffee... continued

Alphabet Song Can Teach Anyone to Read?Even Autistics

September 23, 2005
Newswise - Ancient, preliterate cultures kept their legends and traditions alive with the use of memorization. Many lengthy poems and epics that were eventually written down, such as the works of Homer in ancient Greece, were memorized first. Scholars think... continued