Bus Company Shut Down After Deadly Virginia Crash: Can New Regulations Help Stem Accidents?
June 1, 2011 No Comment
Sky Express, the tour bus company operating a bus that crashed Tuesday morning — killing four people on its way from North Carolina to New York City — has been shut down. The news came just hours after the driver of the bus Kin Yiu Cheung, 37, was charged with reckless driving. After ruling out
Continue reading …Anybody seen a 25,000-pound truckload of Russian king crab lying around? Yeah, authorities searching for it after it went missing during a delivery to Seattle haven’t seen it either. After an independent trucker—whose credentials now appear to be bogus—loaded up his rig at a cold-storage warehouse in Los Angeles with more than $400,000 worth of
Continue reading …In a quest to connect with customers—and up the tipping potential, NewsFeed surmises—the new craze for restaurant servers has them ditching their trusty pens and pads of paper. Instead, servers are showing off their keen memory—and, in essence, displaying their connection to their job and to you—to set themselves apart from the competition. According to
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“What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain.” — DR. KEITH BLACK, chairman of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, as the World Health Organization says cell phones are possibly carcinogenic (via CNN)
Continue reading …U.S. air travelers take notice: things aren’t as bad as they are across the pond. A recent British Airways promotion awarded holders of the airline’s Visa card 100,000 frequent flier miles (equivalent to two round trip tickets from London to New York) after $2,000 worth of purchases. But not before adding taxes, fees and a
Continue reading …Hugh Hefner’s waitresses are getting a new look, courtesy of Marchesa. (via Vogue UK) The high-end fashion label, designed by Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, remade the iconic Playboy Bunny outfit ahead of the opening of a new club in London on June 4. The new uniform is all black, as opposed to having white
Continue reading …A draft agreement between the U.S. and the E.U. about sharing air passenger information was leaked to the Guardian, prompting outrage over what civil liberties groups say is an invasion of privacy and what creates greater potential for data mining of sensitive information. The personal information of millions of European travelers could be stored by
Continue reading …NewsFeed’s Feifei Sun rounds up the brilliant and bizarre from this week in fashion. Gaga, the Gadget Designer. The pop star’s collaboration with Polaroid will include sunglasses that can record video and a camera with a built-in printer. [refinery29] Urban Shoplifters? Retailer Urban Outfitters has been accused, again, of stealing indie designers’ jewelry. [The Cut]
Continue reading …Somehow we don’t think this will catch on quite like Facebook did. Mark Zuckerberg has announced on — where else? — his social networking site that he’s now going to only eat animals that he has personally killed. Apparently, Zuck likes to set a new challenge for himself each year and killing animals was this
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