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...grew out of the Year Without Summer [1816]. There was quite a lot of volcanic activity for several years prior to that, and it created a cloud of dust high up in the atmosphere. The earth cooled very quickly, at least in the northern hemisphere. And crops started to fail. So [German inventor Karl Drais] saw that it was more and more expensive to feed a horse, and he came up with what was originally called a Draisine. It was really a scooter that eventually evolved into a bicycle. People couldn't feed their horses, and they started driving these...
...chip law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson sued California's occupational-health and safety agency on behalf of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and five farm workers who had become sick or are relatives of workers who have died from heatstroke. According to the lawsuit "large numbers of agricultural employers fail utterly to provide basic access to water and shade for their employees" and, as a result, hundreds suffer heat-related illnesses and hospitalizations - or worse - each year . (Read a story about how a pro-football player died of heatstroke...
...recession ends and the sense of crisis fades, we mustn't lose our freshly, painfully acquired ability to think the unthinkable. We need to keep downside risks in mind, to remember that good times can dramatically end and systems suddenly fail. But in plotting our national reconstruction and reinvention it's just as important - and maybe more so - to imagine the unimaginable on the upside. As we gasp in horror at our half glass of water, we really can - must - see it as half full as well as half empty...
...drive to overhaul the health-care system. And the industry has indeed come through in a big way: in June, at a moment when the Congressional Budget Office was estimating that early versions of two Senate health bills were turning out to be more expensive than expected and would fail to curb rising health-care costs, the industry offered to take an $80 billion hit. Since then, drug companies have been pitching in to mobilize public support for President Obama's drive to reform health care, including collaborating with their onetime adversary, the health-reform-advocacy organization Families...
What's more, the abstinence-only model is far from foolproof: 90% of alcoholics do not get sober on their first attempt, and most rehab programs report a more than 50% relapse rate in their patients within months. First attempts to quit smoking cold turkey fail just as often. So, helping drinkers and smokers cut down, even if they can't quit immediately, may have significant value, says Teri Franklin, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. "If you can prevent people from inhaling the 4,000 chemicals in just one cigarette, over 400 of which are carcinogenic...