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Scripps poll: Americans more concerned about hurricanes
By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service

More than four years after Katrina left the deadliest toll for a tropical storm in the United States in nearly a century, most Americans remain convinced that hurricanes pose a greater threat to human life than in the past.

Government approves screening test for Chinese drywall
By ISAAC WOLF, Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON - The federal agency overseeing the investigation into Chinese drywall has approved a screening test for homes with potentially tainted drywall, according to Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

Shortly after the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a report Monday detailing its investigation, Sen. Nelson said that he had spoken with the agency's chair, Inez Tenenbaum

Clarification on Ticket-King story from SHNS
Scripps Howard News Service

EDITORS: A November 19 article slugged TICKET-KING by the Toronto Globe and Mail and distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service described how much money Jet Set Sports paid to secure ticket monopolies from VANOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee. This information should have been attributed to the Seattle Times newspaper.

Tudor: Less might be more for college officials
By CAULTON TUDOR, Raleigh News and Observer

The news that an Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew missed the call twice on a Clemson fumble last week against N.C. State wasn't surprising to anyone who had a decent look at the television replays.

Super bargains unlikely this holiday season
By M.S. ENKOJI, Sacramento Bee

The Grinch who stole the holiday season last year is still lurking around the cash register this season. The difference: This time retailers are wide awake and waiting for him.

Last year, they were blindsided by a 3.4-percent drop in sales. Today, they are heading into the holiday season with much leaner levels of inventory, so they don't get stuck with piles of unsold product.

Homeowner says wind-powered turbine will cut electric bills
By LISA BUIE, St. Petersburg Times

This is Bob Lyon's version of a midlife-crisis sports car.

"This is the craziest thing I've done in my life," the 47-year-old commercial painter joked after a crane lowered a 19-foot, 1-ton wind turbine onto a pole behind his waterfront vacation home in Port Richey, Fla.

Debtadviser: Four ways to face a cash-strapped retirement
By STEVE BUCCI, bankrate.com

Dear Debt Adviser,

Help, I'm about $30,000 in debt. I have about $50,000 in my retirement. I will be 59 1/2 years old in January. I had to go on disability from a fall at work. My house is paid for. Should I just take money out and pay off my loan? Could I just hire someone to (advise me)? I don't know what to do and am at my wits' end. I am not behind on any bills.

-- Doris

B. Smith extends her reach to furniture
By DEBRA BOYETTE, Raleigh News and Observer

B. Smith has her hands in almost every part of the home -- the bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom. Now the lifestyles expert is extending her reach with two furniture lines. The B. Smith Home Collection for Hammary was unveiled at the recent High Point, N.C., Furniture Market. Hammary is a division of La-Z-Boy.

Editorial: 9/11 trial need not be a circus
An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

The five Guantanamo detainees who are about to be charged with the 9/11 murders had planned on being tried by military commissions because, as they see themselves, they are soldiers, not criminals.

Tafur: Dodging BCS tweats
By VITTORIO TAFUR, San Francisco Chronicle

Lazy Sunday afternoon. Curled up with my laptop at the coffee shop. Think I'll check out what my peeps are doing on Twitter.

Baron Davis writes to always line up your beard at your chin line to give your beard a sharper look. Nice. Shannon Elizabeth informs that American Airlines saved $40K in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. Good to know.

How to make a good impression at office holiday parties
By JOYCE GANNON, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

To make the best possible impression at the holiday office gathering, stand with your arms at your side or behind you, try to make eye contact with other guests, be an active listener, smile and by all means, avoid the mistletoe.

Cook: Steelers' season not doomed
By RON COOK, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

KANSAS CITY - Somebody with a microphone asked Pittsburgh Steelers safety Tyrone Carter if the better team won here Sunday. It seemed like such a jarring question considering the Kansas City Chiefs are a miserable team that came in 2-7 and the Steelers like to think of themselves as Super Bowl contenders. Or at least did.

Be careful not to poison your car with ethanol at the pump
By BRUCE SICELOFF, Raleigh News and Observer

Be careful that you don't poison your car with ethanol, the alcohol fuel made mostly from corn.

Phil Sielatycki came close to an accidental overdose at a Shell station in Apex, N. Car.

He parked his Audi, swiped his credit card and lifted a yellow fuel nozzle on a blue pump marked "E85 -- 85 percent Ethanol."

Canadian tries to solve global hungre with better breed of rice
By JESSICA LEEDER, Toronto Globe and Mail

In a humid faux-tropical haven set in a Toronto basement and lit with near-blinding artificial sunlight, Herbert Kronzucker has begun to save the world.

'National crisis' of suicide, depression hits colleges
By JENNA ROSS, Minneapolis Star Tribune

The rate of suicide and depression on college campuses is rising, and last month the trend hit St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

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Dead Wrong

A seven-month investigation into federal mortality records reveals hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans. A first-of-its-kind study also found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die. More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
Autopsy rates differ by race, age, sex, education
Cause of death investigations often dead wrong
Accurate death certificates challenged by poor training
Poll: Doubts persist over accuracy of death certificates
Survey results among different groups
Death poll findings, by questions
What to do if you distrust the death diagnosis
Where to find death records
Deaths by heart disease by state
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Market decides if you set the right price for a house
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Editorial: 9/11 planners to return to NYC -- for trial
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Chinese drywall investigation could be released Monday
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Recycled Radiation

Thousands of everyday products and materials containing radioactively tainted metals are surfacing across the United States and around the world. But because of haphazard screening, an absence of oversight, and substantial disincentives for businesses to report contamination, no one knows how many tainted goods are in circulation.
Recycled radioactive metal contaminates consumer products
NRC wants to tighten oversight of often-lost radioactive devices
Same batch of radioactive metal from Mexico enters Calif. for 25 years
Radioactive cheese grater case shows lack of oversight
36 states have nowhere to dump low-level radioactive material
Radioactive mesh from China used to make 30,000 filters in Florida
Authorities scrambled to corral radioactive La-Z-Boy recliners
Only U.S. effort to collect radioactive material has 9,000-object backlog
Mandatory screening, reporting needed to stop recycling radiation
Radioactive materials surface in Tennessee scrap yards
Texas has highest number of radioactive metal incidents
Editorial: The hidden radiation around us
Scripps Howard News Service response to comments from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on SHNS' "Recycled Radiation"

The Doctor is Out

A special report by Scripps Howard News Service finds as many as one in five Americans does not have a family doctor. And this translates directly to higher rates of illness and death and higher costs.
Docs: In ERs, more sore throats than cardiac arrests

Interactive database showing U.S. doctors by county

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