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...with an aging fleet. Public-transit advocates in many major cities face a similar problem: an aging, underfunded transit system struggling to safely ferry ever larger numbers of riders. "This does draw attention to the fact that we need to invest a lot more in our transit system," says Deron Lovass, the federal transportation director for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Our highway system is world class, but we've neglected public transit along the same way." (See pictures of Washington...
...Deron Lovaas, a Policy Director at the U.S.-based environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, says military researchers have a history of spawning transformative technologies that trickle into society, including DARPAnet, the communication system of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that eventually evolved into the Internet. "What's exciting here is potential spin-off effects," he says. "The military can invest so much more than the private sector can. They can invest billions into substitute fuels. And they can take bigger risks...
...MRSA infections among some of the most vulnerable patients in a hospital - those in the intensive-care unit (ICU) - dropped by nearly 50%. That downward trend was true of all bloodstream infections among ICU patients, including infections with strains of staph that can be controlled with antibiotics, reports Dr. Deron Burton, a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in a study in the Feb. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Freecycle encourages people to give away unwanted items rather than toss them in the dumpster. The group was founded in Arizona in 2003 by Deron Beal, an employee with a local recycling non-profit who had committed his life to eliminating unnecessary waste. The first incarnation of this online community involved only about 30 people - and Beal's desire to give away a used bed. But that initial gang of recyclers are now joined by more than 4,600 local Freecycle groups spread out across 85 countries. A University of Iowa study analyzed the average number and weight of items...
...Utah Jazz's Deron Williams nailed a three pointer at the buzzer to end the first half with the score at 55-43 and give the U.S. some much needed breathing room. Team USA had led by just one at the end of the first quarter, and the quick silver Australian point guard Patrick Mills - "an NBA player for sure," said the admiring U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski afterwards - was giving them cause for concern, and ended up with 20 points...