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After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There's Little Action

You might think that everything would have changed for the chemicals industry on April 16, 1947. That was the day of the Texas City Disaster, the worst industrial accident in U.S. history. A ship...

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At Cambodia Hotel, The Workers Are The Boss

This story is part of NPR's ongoing series about social entrepreneurs — people around the world who are dreaming up innovative ways to develop communities and solve social problems. If you walk into...

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Your Digital Trail: Private Company Access

This is the second story in our four-part series examining your digital trail and who potentially has access to it. It was co-reported by G.W. Schulz from the Center for Investigative Reporting....

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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?

This is the third story in our four-part series examining your digital trail and who potentially has access to it. It was co-reported by G.W. Schulz from the Center for Investigative Reporting....

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Your Digital Trail: Data Fuels Political And Legal Agendas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqWuioPHhz0 This is the fourth story in our four-part series examining your digital trail and who potentially has access to it. It was co-reported by G.W. Schulz from the...

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A Judge's Cookbook Reveals The Secrets Of Bialys And Bagels

There are two important things that you learn about Michael Zusman, baker and co-author of The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home, when you bake with him. First, his real job has nothing to do with bread or...

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Army Takes On Its Own Toxic Leaders

Top commanders in the U.S. Army have announced publicly that they have a problem: They have too many "toxic leaders" — the kind of bosses who make their employees miserable. Many corporations share a...

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Weeks Later, More Questions Than Answers In W.Va. Chemical Spill

State officials in West Virginia say that in most areas, they can no longer detect any of the industrial chemical MCHM that spilled into the water supply recently. They say the water is safe for people...

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New Shooting Revives Old Questions About Mental Health In Military

The mass shooting at Fort Hood, the second at the same Army base in just five years, is renewing questions about the state of mental health treatment on U.S. military bases.

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Even 'Proper' Technique Exposes Nurses' Spines To Dangerous Forces

Scientists say nurses like Sunny Vespico are prime examples of what nursing schools and hospitals are doing wrong: They keep teaching nursing employees how to lift and move patients in ways that could...

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Hospital To Nurses: Your Injuries Are Not Our Problem

The case of Terry Cawthorn and Mission Hospital, in Asheville, N.C., gives a glimpse of how some hospital officials around the country have shrugged off an epidemic. Cawthorn was a nurse at Mission for...

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At VA Hospitals, Training And Technology Reduce Nurses' Injuries

Bernard Valencia's room in the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif., illustrates how hospitals across the country could fight a nationwide epidemic. As soon as you enter the...

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OSHA Launches Program To Protect Nursing Employees

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will announce Thursday that it's going to crack down on hospitals, for the first time ever, to prevent an epidemic of back and arm...

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Vietnam War Study Raises Concerns About Veterans' Mental Health

Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: A new study of veterans from the Vietnam War has troubling implications for troops who have fought much more recently in...

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Army Says It Will Review Cases Of Dismissed Soldiers With Mental Health Problems

The acting secretary of the Army, Eric Fanning, promises to conduct a "thorough, multidisciplinary review" to determine whether thousands of combat soldiers with mental health problems or traumatic...

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How A Simple Bump Can Cause An Insidious Brain Injury

It's not just football players or troops who fought in the wars who suffer from brain injuries. Researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the U.S. get potentially serious...

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Senators Want Moratorium On Dismissing Soldiers During Investigation

Four U.S. senators are calling on the Army to stop kicking out soldiers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and have been diagnosed with mental health problems or traumatic brain injuries — effective...

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Senators, Military Specialists Say Army Report On Dismissed Soldiers Is...

An Army review concludes that commanders did nothing wrong when they kicked out more than 22,000 soldiers for misconduct after they came back from Iraq or Afghanistan – even though all of those troops...

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Mobile Home Park Owners Can Spoil An Affordable American Dream

This story is the first in a two-part report on conditions at mobile home parks in the U.S. Today's piece focuses on what happens when corporate park owners fail to take care of their communities. The...

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When Residents Take Ownership, A Mobile Home Community Thrives

This story is the second in a two-part report on conditions at mobile home parks in the U.S. Read part one here . If you had strolled one Saturday afternoon through the Park Plaza neighborhood in...

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