Day: January 9, 2013

Polaris Recalls Ranger Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles Due to Loss of Control and Crash Hazard

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013. The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using the product immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: 2013 Polaris Ranger® 400[Read More…]

Representative Gutierrez Statement on Illinois Highway Safety Law

“I am looking forward to carrying the same spirit of problem-solving and concrete accomplishment that was demonstrated in Springfield to the immigration debate in Washington.” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013.  Yesterday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) praised his home state of Illinois for passing SB957, a bill that will allow the State[Read More…]

NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around Vega

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013.  Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The scientists used data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, in which NASA plays an important[Read More…]

New Drug for Bipolar Disorder May Offer Fewer Side Effects

UK–(ENEWSPF)–9 January 2013.  A drug for bipolar disorder that works like lithium, the most common and effective treatment for the condition, but without lithium’s toxicity and problem side-effects has been identified by Oxford University researchers in a study in mice. A drug that mimics the effect of lithium but without[Read More…]

FMCSA Orders Canadian Bus Company Mi Joo Tour and Travel to Cease Operations in the United States

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered the Canadian bus company, Mi Joo Tour & Travel of Coquitlam, British Columbia, to cease U.S. operations and revoked the firm’s authority to provide passenger service within the United States.  “The safety of all[Read More…]

Library of Congress Acquires Historic Sports Audio Recordings

Mickey Mantle, Billie Jean King, Bill Russell Among Athletes Interviewed Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013. In 1994, baseball legend Mickey Mantle talked candidly in a radio interview about his alcoholism and the impact of his father’s death. “I’ve always felt like that if he would have lived longer that I would[Read More…]

American Federation of Teachers on Gates Foundation Report on Measuring Effective Teaching

AFT’s Weingarten: “This study underscores the fact that teacher evaluations must be about improving teaching, not just a mere snapshot assessment.”  WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 9, 2013. Statement of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s final reports of the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project.  “The[Read More…]

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