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(01/09/07 4:55am)
INDIANAPOLIS -- A federal agency has removed Allen County from a list of areas not in compliance with standards governing ground-level ozone, a precursor of lung-choking smog that's released by cars, lawnmowers and factories.\nGov. Mitch Daniels said Friday the move by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove Allen County, which includes Fort Wayne, from the list of ozone-nonattainment areas should spur job growth.\nCounties not in compliance with ozone standards face restrictions on economic growth from industries and certain businesses that require air permits. Redesignation as "attainment" means businesses can use a simplified environmental permitting process.\n"This may sound like a technicality I know to many citizens, but this is very, very important because it has cost business to Allen County," Daniels said.\nAllen County is Indiana's third most populous county, with nearly 350,000 residents.\nIts removal from the non-\nattainment list brings to seven the number of Indiana counties the EPA has determined to be in compliance with ozone standards.\nLast year, the agency removed Delaware, Greene, Jackson, Vanderburgh, Vigo and Warrick counties from that listing.\nEnvironmentalists have criticized the state's push to get Indiana counties declared in compliance with standards. They contend officials should instead be focusing more on combatting ozone formation by taking steps such as adding municipal bus lines and light rail commuter trains in urban areas to reduce automotive exhaust.\nUnder the hot summer sun, ozone and other pollutants form smog, posing a threat of serious respiratory illnesses in some people, particularly the elderly, children and people with asthma.\nSeveral counties across the state are still designated as non-attainment areas. State officials have petitioned to have seven of them -- Lake, LaPorte, Porter, St. Joseph and Elkhart in northern Indiana and Clark and Floyd in southern Indiana removed from the EPA's list .\n"We're working with the EPA to get official recognition that these areas have met the health-based ozone standard," said Rob Elstro, a spokesman for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.\nTom Easterly, IDEM's commissioner, said Marion County and eight counties surrounding it in central Indiana also remain non-attainment areas .\nCompliance with the federal ozone standard is determined by an average of ozone values from three consecutive ozone seasons.\nThe EPA's decision to redesignate Allen County was based on ozone-monitoring data during 2003 to 2005. The EPA noted that data from the 2006 season further supported Indiana's petition for redesignation.
(01/09/07 4:54am)
The School of Informatics and RSA Laboratories researchers have developed a system that will allow computer users to better resist Internet attacks such as identity theft. Browser cookies, which contain Web identification information that can easily be stolen, were the focus of the study. New active cookies will require more information to make a more secure transaction online than old cookies did. They will block access to domain names, which, if obtained by a third party, can provide it with access to personal identifying information.
(01/09/07 4:53am)
Anthem health insurance dropped Bloomington Hospital as of Dec. 31, 2006. A 60-day grace period for patients who have Anthem insurance, began Jan. 1. Anthem will pay for those who need health care at Bloomington Hospital within that time period as if it were still in the Anthem network.
(01/09/07 4:52am)
Frederick Luehring, a senior research scientist at IU, will examine the theoretical particle Higgs boson, which endows everything in the universe with mass. Working with a computer center jointly operated by IU and the University of Chicago, Luehring and other scientists will be able to receive data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Physicists will also search for supersymmetric particles, which could lead to the discovery of extra dimensions. 158 institutions in 35 countries will have access to the data.
(01/09/07 4:49am)
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Pluto is finally getting some respect -- not from astronomers, but from wordsmiths.\n"Plutoed" was chosen 2006's Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting Friday.\nTo "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.\n"Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name," said society president Cleveland Evans. "We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet."\n"Plutoed" won in a runoff against "climate canary," defined as "an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon."\nOther words considered were, "murse" (man's purse), "flog" (a fake blog that promotes products) and "macaca" (an American citizen treated as an alien).\nFormer Republican Sen. George Allen was ahead in his re-election campaign when he said "macaca," which some regard as a racial slur, and "welcome to America" in referring to a U.S.-born man of Indian descent who was volunteering for Allen's opponent. Allen lost to Democrat Jim Webb.\nThe 117-year-old American Dialect Society comprises linguists, grammarians, historians and independent scholars, among others. Members conduct the vote for fun and not in an official capacity to induct words into the English language.\nThe society chose "truthiness" as its top word last year. The word is credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."\nLast month, an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster declared "truthiness" the word of the year for 2006.
(03/08/05 5:03am)
After a long night of drinking, many students wake up the next day and are forced to pop pills such as Tylenol in hopes of shaking a headache from the infamous hangover. Besides a headache, other hangover symptoms can include fatigue, sensitivity to light and sound, red eyes, muscle aches and thirst. These effects usually kick in when the person's blood alcohol level is either falling or back at zero. \nOne cause of a hangover is dehydration. Alcohol is a diuretic. In other words, it causes people to have to go to the bathroom -- a lot. It is estimated that for every two glasses of an alcoholic beverage, four glasses are expelled through urination. The result of dehydration is a headache, "dry mouth" and a danger of injury to many vital organs. \nNausea is another symptom of a hangover. Some good-hearted students stay with their friends to help them through a rough night of alcohol-induced vomiting. Because alcohol is an irritant, large amounts of it in the stomach irritate the lining and cause the person to throw up. Lack of sleep or an imbalance of electrolytes because of the toxins in alcohol also contributes to hangovers. \nSo what is the cure? \nTime is the best cure for the hangover hang-ups. A hangover usually goes away within eight to 24 hours. However, fruit juices, bland foods such as bread and crackers, a lot of sleep and antacids such as aspirin and ibuprofen might help alleviate the symptoms.