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Nassau County Police Department Investigative Series
The four-part investigative series into the Nassau County Police Department -- which protects and serves the second most taxed county in the U.S. -- exposes non-transparent, unethical, and potentially illegal activities being perpetrated by the county's top law enforcement and government officials.
Tags: police; Nassau County
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Prisons' Legal Strain
Eight class-action lawsuits won by inmates rights lawyers have led to the state of California mandating "fixes for past failures that have already cost taxpayers more than $1 billion and will cost nearly $8 billion over five years." Included in that bill are improvements in the ways prisoners are treated, like health care and "general confinement conditions." An outbreak of Valley Fever at one prison is included in the coverage of these issues. One of the ways the state seeks to balance the prison budget is a plan to release 22,000 "low-risk offenders" early.
Tags: Prisons; health care; medical conditions; confinement conditions; prison health care; Valley Fever
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Coretta Scott King: Uncovering the FBI's Secret Spy Files
The project reveals how law enforcement agents secretly spied on Coretta Scott King, the wife and widow of Martin Luther King, monitoring her activities and conversations for a minimum of four years after her husband's assassination. "The documents also open a historical window to the paranoid fever-dreams of government in the 60's that led to many rights abuses."
Tags: Coretta Scott King; civil rights; law enforcement; spying; FBI; wire-tapping;
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Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria
This book is a narrative investigation that follows the Seeker, a scuba - diving charter boat, over the course of two summers as five of its customers die, all while diving at one of the world's premier scuba - diving sites, the wreck of the Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. The books exposes the safety issues within the scuba diving industry.
Tags: BOOK
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Good Intentions, Bad Results
CBS 60 Minutes reports on "the adverse effects of Plan Colombia, the U.S. government's $1.3 billion aid package" intended to stem cocaine trade by fumigating coca fields in Colombia. The story reveals that after the fumigations farmers in Colombia experienced symptoms similar to ones from pesticide poisoning; the sprayed chemicals had not been tested and were a hundred times stronger than the U.S.-approved version; the fumigations killed not only coca plants but also legitimate crops and livestock.
Tags: health; safety; drugs; fever; rashes; EPA; Pesticide Action Network; Putumayo; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Making a New Mosquito
Spielman and D'Antonio report how some scientists "are trying to deprive mosquitos of their ability to spread parasitic infections" such as malaria and dengue fever by altering the genetic makeup of the mosquitos. The strategy of one entomologist, Alexander Raikhel, proposes boosting "the immune response of mosqitos so that they kill pathogens they would normally harbor and pass on to humans." Raikhel and other scientists would release the genetically mutated mosquitos into the wild, allowing them to pass along their traits to wild mosquitos. However, genetic manipulation of mosquitos "is not without risk." At worse, it could "lead to "epidemics as wild mosquitos rebound."
Tags: mosquito; genetic engineering; malaria; disease; DNA
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Crying AIDS: Does sloppy research exaggerate the extent of Africa's crisis?
An investigation by Toward Freedom Magazine of the AIDS epidemic in Africa reveals that sloppy research may inflate the reported number of AIDS cases on the continent. The World Health Organization estimates that 23.3 million people in Africa have AIDS. However, that estimate is "based on the most fragile of foundations. [The WHO's] definition of AIDS in Africa differs decisively from AIDS in the West. The WHO's clinical definition of AIDS in Africa is not based on an HIV test but on the combined symptoms of prolonged fever, persistent cough and others; none of which are uncommon in Africa."
Tags: AIDS; Africa; research methods; data collection; inaccurate; World Health Organization
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Old N.H. town catching 'smart growth' fever
USA Today tells the story of Littleton, New Hampshire. The local government and school district of Littleton, population 5,965, combined their annual budget to hire Concordia Inc., a community planning firm. Concordia advised the residents of Littleton on "smart growth" planning practices." With the help of a 100 person committee composed of Littleton residents, Concordia drew up a plan for Littleton: redesign the town's schools, fill up every building before building another one, re-design streets and neighborhoods in order to entice people to walk more. Littleton's avant-garde practices are just beginning to be considered by larger urban centers such as Pasadena, California and Saline, Michigan.
Tags: Littleton; New Hampshire; Concordia Inc.; smart growth; community planning; housing; schools; districts; residents
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Flying Fever
Doctors learned of the presence of the mosquito-borne West Nile encephalitis when crows and captive birds in the Bronx Zoo began dying. But identifying the malady and treating the cause were difficult, because there is but a handful of experts in mosquito-borne diseases in the U.S. To combat the outbreak in the Bronx and Queens, health officials sprayed Malathion to kill flying bugs but no move was made to eradicate breeding areas.
Tags: mosquitos; virus; CDC; health prevention; poison; birds
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Island fever
An eccentric Welsh couple who filter their drinking water through a sock, have lived alone on a tiny island for three decades. Now, they're fighting to keep it. The opposition: the government of Antigua, two politically connected lawyers and an Asian developer with $300 million to spend. Guess who's winning?