McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which makes the popular Tylenol pain relief drugs, says it is recalling a number of lots of its Tylenol products as well as some lots of Sinutab, Benadryl and Sudafed PE because the medications were made at a plant that where production was suspended in April 2010.
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I bought one of these military shirts this Summer and I’m still trying to figure out how to wear it. After I saw this gentleman at Pitti a few days ago I remembered I also had a photo of Robert R. wearing this same style. After looking at the two images I now realize my shirt is too long. I need to shorten the length of my shirt to be in line with my wrist at the hip. I think this is one of those truly versatile and inexpensive items that should be in everyones wardrobe.
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A Massachusetts prosecutor dropped involuntary manslaughter charges against two men in connection with the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself with an Uzi at a gun show, citing last week’s acquittal of a third defendant. (Jan. 18)
Continue reading …MTV debuted its new series Skins last night, an American version of a British teen drama rife with sex and drugs. Not everybody’s a fan: Richard Lawson, Gawker : It goes even further than the Brit version in pushing the idea that teens are “messy jumbles of extremes with very little…
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The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday gave Comcast Corp., the country’s largest cable company, the green light to take over NBC Universal, home of the NBC television network. (Jan. 18)
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photo: eerkmans / Creative Commons Back in November WWF released a report showing how even China’s modest per capita ecological footprint would be too much for the planet if everyone lived like that–we’d need 1.2 planets to support us all. Now they’ve released a sep… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Regis Philbin says he is leaving his New York-based talk show later this year, retiring from the airwaves. Audience members and even co-host Kelly Ripa seemed taken aback by the news. (Jan. 18)
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Image: Stanford, based on data from the EIA, FHA, and Brookings Institution, and NYT graph. It Takes a Lot… The graph above (you can see a bigger version here ) shows average gasoline prices in the U.S. on the Y axis and the X axis shows average miles driven per capita each year. At first glance, you can clearly see two big spikes that represent the oil embargo and energy crisis in the 70s, and the recent increase in the second half of the 2000s. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Camden, New Jersey, was America’s second most dangerous city in 2010, and its most dangerous in 2009, according to one annual study, and its median income of $26,752 is within the margin of error for the nation’s lowest. Yet the city today began laying off 167 of its 373…
Continue reading …Sketchy reports are emerging about a school shooting in Los Angeles: A student who shot at least two fellow pupils—possibly by accident—has surrendered to police. School officials say the student brought a gun to school in his backpack and accidentally set it off when he pulled it out….
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