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Search results for "indoor" ...
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Cuban Pot Rings
“Cuban-run drug rings dominate Florida’s indoor marijuana-cultivation trade, which supplies the Eastern seaboard state with some of the most potent and expensive marijuana in the US. Court records and interviews with drug agents showed that up to 90 percent of the hundreds of suspects busted each year running illegal grow houses are recently arrived Cuban refugees”.
Tags: cops; police; law enforcement; crime; arrests; drugs; court; Central Florida
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That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles; Tales of the Dragon
A network of ranch homes in a sleepy suburb became the site of Colorado's largest indoor marijuana bust. Dan Tang, the pot-growing ring leader, got off on just one charge of money laundering.
Tags: Dan Tang; Colorado; marijuana; drug bust; growing; indoor; police; largest indoor drug bust;
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Dallas Cowboys Practice Facility Collapse
After the collapse of the Cowboys' indoor practice facility, reporters investigated the company behind the design to find they have a spotty track record. The Cowboys also took structural advice from an ex-convict who was not qualified.
Tags: facility builder; Dallas Cowboys; Texas; football; Summit Structures; Irving; Joe DeCamillis; Valley Ranch
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Indoor Tanning: Unexpected Danger
This survey of nearly 300 indoor tanning facilities around the country found evidence of widespread failures to inform customers about possible risks, including premature wrinkling and skin cancer, and to follow recommended safety procedures, such as wearing eye goggles. The tanning industry is minimally regulated, and compliance with the few existing rules is poor.
Tags: tanning beds; health; skin care; beauty; sunlight; skin cancer; melanoma
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Local Ties. Decades of mishandling hazardous cargo leave railroads a toxic legacy. Areas near rail yards face possible health problems; lawsuits are on the rise. Keeping the children indoors.
According to the article, "Rail yards have become one of the country's most serious pollution problems. For decades, railroads have carried enormous quantities of hazardous chemicals, and rail yards were used to transfer and store them. By the industry's own admission, leaks, spills and even outright dumping were once common."
Tags: railroads; rail yards; pollution; hazardous waste; leaks; spills; dumping; chemicals; trains
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The Trouble with Houses
New homes in the Minneapolis area are deteriorating at an alarming rate. Part of the problem arises because tighter, better insulated houses trap moisture that can rot out walls and studs. The other part is a home building industry that has few safeguards against faulty work.
Tags: housing; fuel conservation; mold; indoor pollution; mildew
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Is Your Office Killing You?
"The EPA calls indoor air quality one of the top five environmental health risks of our time," Business Week reports. Recycled air in office buildings keeps dangerous chemicals from office furniture and machines circulating, and poorly maintained ventilation systems can introduce harmful molds and bacteria. The poor quality of air in "sick buildings" harms workers and bottom lines. Experts only expect the problem to get worse, Business Week reports.
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IRE Feed 4 "Investigate This"
A compilation of 17 stories, including: 1.) "Deadly Detectors" WFXT, Boston, tested smoke detectors against the clock. 2.) "Burning Secret" WSMV, Nashville, State troopers were temporarily blinded and burned with pepper spray to feel it's effects, but without knowing the deadly and unhealthy hazards of the spray. 3.) "Take the Money and Run" News 12 Long Island, Election candidates betting campaign money. 4.) "Steroids For Sale" KPRC, Houston, Steroids illegally prescribed and Houston Police as customers. 5.) "Behind the Badge" WTHR, Indianapolis, Convicted criminal Police Officers. 6.) "Daycare Criminal Checks" KTVK, Dallas 7.) "Candy man" KOMO, Seattle, Teacher uses minors for door-to-door candy sales, usually in violation of child labor laws. 8.) "Illegal School Vans" WEWS, Cleveland, Schools transporting children in unsafe and illegal vans instead of buses. 9.) "High Crimes, High School" WITI, Milwaukee 10.) "Life After Death Row" WRAL, Raleigh 11.) "Foul Air" WWOR, New York, Carbon monoxide poisoning in indoor ice rinks. 12.) "Hard Bounces" KTVK, Dallas, "Banks that practice check ordering, or cashing larger checks first, equaling more profits for banks and more fines for customers. 13.) "Investigating the IRS" KTVK, Dallas 14.) "Fake Degrees" WFXT, Boston, Fake universities giving fake degrees. 15.) "Who is Mr. Wright?" KOMO, Seattle, An illegit doctor with fake credentials. 16.) "Medical Secrets" News 12 Long Island, A woman with terminal breast cancer, a doctor who failed to diagnose it, and a hospital that protected the doctors and punished the whistle blowers 17.) "Military Secrets" WRAL, Raleigh, Military doctors without medical licenses.
Tags: TAPE; WFXT; WSMV; KPRC; WTHR; KTVK; KOMO; WEWS; WITI; WRAL; WWOR; News 12 Long Island
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Poisoned By Pesticides
Employees at a courthouse in Macon, Missouri went to work one day. Within two days virtually all had been to the doctor, most to the emergency room. Doctors believe it was because they had been exposed to a chemical called Dursban. Dursban is the brand name of the chemical chlorpyrophis made by Dow Chemical. Doctors believe it was the exposure to Dursban following a routine indoor bug spraying that made the employees sick. The investigation found that DOW and the EPA knew of problems with Dursban.
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The tobacco industry had a problem: growing concern about second-hand smoke. This Washington Post Magazine article investigates how, in order to fight public concern with second-hand smoke, the Tobacco Institute, its PR agents at Fleishman-Hillard and its lawyers at Covington & Burling helped turn a small-time Fairfax businessman into an international authority on indoor air quality and cigarette smoke. (Mar. 24, 1996)
Tags: Mintz Smoke Screen Gray Robertson Healthy Buildings International (HBI) 10 pgs.