Sunday, June 17, 2012
Sept. 11 Cancer Victims To Get Medical Coverage From U.S.
Posted by Linda H on 6:32:00 AM
The U.S. may spend as much as $147 million through 2016 to pay for the medical care of responders to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks who are diagnosed with breast, liver and other types of cancers.
About 50 cancers will be covered by the money, which is part of a $1.5 billion federal health-care fund for rescuers, cleanup crews and others exposed to carcinogens at or near New York’s World Trade Center. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the proposalin a regulatory filing yesterday, which would also cover the other Sept. 11 sites, at the Pentagon in suburban Washington and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
“Cancer incidence among responders and survivors is a tragic fact, and we must continue to do everything we can to provide the help that those who are sick need and deserve,” U.S. Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Jerrold Nadler and Peter King, all of New York, said in a statement.
“We recognize how personal the issue of cancer and all of the health conditions related to the World Trade Center tragedy are to 9/11 responders, survivors and their loved ones,” said Howard, who oversees the program, in a statement on its website.
Austin dims its lights, everyone + science wins
Posted by Linda H on 6:32:00 AM
Those purple markers (which are clickable at the map’s website) indicate how much or how little night sky is visible. For the ones near the city core, the emphasis is on “little.” In 2007, the city passed regulations aimed at reducing the amount of light that brightens the night sky, but old fixtures — and the city’s highways — were grandfathered in until 2015.
Yesterday, they took more direct action. The city council approved spending up to $15 million to replace or upgrade half of Austin’s streetlights. The decision will result in the removal of existing plastic domes from under the lamps, which tend to diffuse the light broadly (and inefficiently). More importantly, it will also buy 35,000 LED lights, which use half the power of the existing bulbs and which last up to 15 years.
Apple Needs to Make it in America
