News tagged with stop
Driver misjudgment and landscape variations cause collisions at stop sign intersections
Sep 29, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stop signs are supposed to be traffic safety tools, but how effective are they? According to one Ryerson University researcher, intersections with stop signs can be some of the deadliest places ...
Solar-powered safety: Road signs blink their warnings
Jun 19, 2009 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
Across New Jersey, more towns are using solar-powered warning signs, capitalizing on the technology's effectiveness to inform the public, warn motorists of danger and save energy.
I quit, we quit -- what works better for smokers?
Jan 22, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A study from the University of Bath has found that smokers are twice as likely to kick the habit if they use a support group rather than trying to give up alone.
Stop & Shop Supermarket Chain Goes Hi-Tech
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 29, 2008 |
3.8 / 5 (35) |
2
Your next trip to Stop & Shop may be little more than just placing items into your wagon and paying for them at the cashier's checkout counter.
Search results for stop
Study raises new questions about Merck pill Zetia
Medicine & Health / Medications
7 hours ago |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
(AP) -- A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin - drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
Geeky 'tweeters' to report on space shuttle launch
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
23 hours ago |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Fingers will be flying when space shuttle Atlantis blasts off Monday: About 100 of NASA's geekiest fans will be on hand, pecking away at iPhones, BlackBerrys, laptops and other Twittering gadgets.
Federal agencies not taking chances to keep carp from invading Great Lakes
Nov 15, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A group of federal agencies criticized in the past for failing to move quickly to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes announced Friday that they're taking every precaution to keep them out, even poisoning thousands ...
Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years
Nov 13, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Nov 13, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
1
(AP) -- Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy.
Quarter of a million children in England at risk of skin cancer from sunbeds
Nov 12, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
An estimated quarter of a million 11-17 year olds in England are being put at increased risk of developing malignant melanoma by using sunbeds, warn researchers in a letter to this week's BMJ.
Discoveries in the Deep
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have been using Pavilion Lake as a testing ground for the future human exploration of other worlds.
10 unusual gadgets and gifts for geeks
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 12, 2009 |
1.8 / 5 (6) |
0
Nerds. Geeks. Fanboys. Whatever you call them, the comics aficionados, movie buffs and videogame enthusiasts who dwell amongst us can be really hard to shop for. But it gets dramatically worse this time of year, when everyone ...
HP's 3Com takeover marks a shot at Cisco
Nov 11, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $2.7 billion takeover of 3Com Corp. is a shot at networking leader Cisco Systems Inc. - and a sign of how old relationships are being frayed by a flurry of maneuvers by technology ...
Longevity tied to genes that preserve tips of chromosomes
Nov 11, 2009 |
5 / 5 (20) |
0
A team led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found a clear link between living to 100 and inheriting a hyperactive version of an enzyme that rebuilds telomeres - the tip ends ...
List of search results for stop
