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 Travel Information - December 2, 2008
| Researchers have taken a look at the health care needs of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina that remained in travel trailers and found barriers to their receiving adequate care. Specifically, researchers found a worsening of chronic disease and mental illness, as well as barriers to individuals receiving care since they were displaced. But researchers said th meeting those needs were "essential" for ensuring recovery | | Researchers at the West Virginia University School of Dentistry say they have uncovered the reason for high rates of tooth loss in two Pennsylvania towns and two West Virginia counties. Nationwide about 20 percent of Americans have lost their teeth, but in West Virginia, it's 43 percent, researchers say | | Toys "R" Us is taking safety measures on crib products to a higher level by requiring benchmarks over government and industry safety rules. The stringent measures include specific trees crib makers could use, the way spindles are attached to crib railings and the glue used. The toy stores threatened to ban crib makers which would not follow their new rules | | It turns out that Abhinav Bindra had a secret weapon when he took the gold medal in the 10 meter air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics becoming the first athlete from India to ever earn an individual gold medal in that Olympic sport. Bindra trained for his event using biofeedback training to master control over the other skills, besides dead aim, that a shooter needs to excel in the 10 meter event | | Bloodsucking bedbugs have returned with a vengeance in many college dorms. Dan Mizer, associate director of residence life at Texas A&M University, which has dealt with bedbugs in the past, explained the bedbug campus invasion to more foreign travel by students, a larger bedbug population, new rules that discourage widespread fumigation and maybe tougher bugs more resistant to pesticides | |
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