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...list goes on: Russell, the elegant, no-nonsense employment-office manager, says traffic to her office increased 13% over the past 12 months. Of the county's 19,510 workers, 2,358 were unemployed as of Aug. 13 - a rate of 12%. More cuts may be on the way. Aleris International, a manufacturer of rolled aluminum that employs 149 at its Roxboro plant, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February. Charter Communications, which has 14 working for it in Roxboro, followed suit in March. "People are afraid to spend their money now," says Marcia O'Neil, head...
Sitting in traffic can certainly be infuriating enough to raise your blood pressure. But new research shows that traffic can raise your blood pressure and put your heart at risk in a more direct way - by exposing you to the pollution in exhaust fumes...
...Instead, the approach to preventing accidents due to cellphone use should borrow from strategies used to combat drunk driving. Years of propaganda from government agencies and well-meaning non-profits like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have helped dramatically change cultural attitudes about drinking and driving. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey found that only 2.2 percent of nighttime weekend drivers were drunk in 2007, down from 7.5 percent in the 1970s...
...policy chapters that need to be negotiated, successfully closing just one, on science and research. This is partly due to the issue of Cyprus, still divided between Greek and Turkish sides: eight of the chapters are formally blocked because Turkey still refuses to open its ports and airports to traffic from Greek Cyprus...
Just when Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator, had evidently embarked on one of his occasional charm offensives - releasing hostages (two Americans and five South Koreans), sending envoys to the South for former President Kim Dae Jung's funeral, and reopening some traffic across the Demilitarized Zone that divides the continent - he has also reminded the world that getting North Korea to get rid of its nuclear program will be as difficult as ever. On Sept. 4, Pyongyang, via its state-run news agency, noted matter-of-factly that it was in the "last phase" of its uranium-enrichment...