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Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/nyregion/09safety.html?th&emc=th
NYT
February 8, 2010
The Venting of Gas From Pipes Has Been Fatal in the Past
In 1999, workers taking a boiler out of service at a power plant in Dearborn, Mich., mistakenly...
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/nyregion/09victims.html?th&emc=th
NYT
February 8, 2010
Blast Victims Served Their Communities
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Their obituaries will call them pipe fitters, and they will not be wrong, but they...
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/earth/09climate.html?th&emc=th
NYT
February 9, 2010
U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Just over two years ago, Rajendra K. Pachauri seemed destined for a...
BBC, 2/9/10: “The fault which caused a plane to crash land at Heathrow Airport in January 2008
was “unrecognised”, a report says….The report said ice had probably formed within the fuel system from water that occurred naturally in the fuel….”
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Feb 8, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – “Egypt’s health ministry has announced two new human cases of H5N1 avian influenza, both in women who had exposure to sick birds, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
One of the patients is a 40-year-old...
