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Efficient Workers Cause Early Shutdown of GM Plant
Workers at General Motors’ Ohio plant will be out of work two days earlier than planned — because they were too efficient. Although GM originally announced it would be closing its plant in...
Mar 05, 2019
Efficient Workers Cause Early Shutdown of GM Plant
Workers at General Motors’ Ohio plant will be out of work two days earlier than planned — because they were too efficient. Although GM originally announced it would be closing its plant in...
Mar 05, 2019
Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism According to New Study
A Danish study has tracked 657,461 children over a decade and has found no correlation between autism and the vaccine for rubella, mumps and measles. A journal published in The Lancet more than twenty...
Mar 05, 2019
Scientists Report Second Person Cured of HIV
An HIV- positive man from London who contracted the virus in 2003 is now the world’s second man to cleared of AIDS after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor who is HIV-resistant. Dr....
Mar 05, 2019
Brits Set Record for Naked Roller Coaster Ride
Nearly 200 British naturalists who took a roller coaster ride over the weekend had to be warned to keep more than just their arms and legs inside their respective cars. The naturalists — which i...
Mar 05, 2019
Doctors Cure HIV-Infected Patient
A British man has become the second person in history to be cured of the AIDS virus. The unidentified patient, who was HIV positive when he was admitted into the hospital, has been cleared of the dise...
Mar 05, 2019
Thief Steals Wheels Off Police Car Parked at Station
While one might think a police department facility would be the safest place to park a car, apparently that isn’t the case. Not even if the vehicle in question is a police car. A Jackson Police ...
Mar 05, 2019
Junk Food that’s Good for You?
If it sounds to good to be true, it usually is. So, how about junk food that’s actually kind of good for you? The Huffington Post asked three nutritionists what’s good to reach for when yo...
Mar 04, 2019
SCOTUS Rejects $28M Nebraska Wrongful Conviction Appeal
A Nebraska county will have to pay a $28M judgement to six people wrongfully convicted in a 1985 homicide. On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected Gage County’s appeal, effectively upholding th...
Mar 04, 2019
Changing How Blind Musicians See Conductor
* A newly developed conductor’s baton could be a game changer for blind and visually impaired musicians. * The ‘Haptic Baton’ sends signals to ankle or wrist monitors which vibrate a...
Mar 04, 2019
