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  • What Really Gives You Wings? Taking a Closer Look at Energy Drinks

    What truly is giving us energy when we consume energy drinks? Is it the caffeine, excess sugar, B12, the proprietary blend mix or taurine? The Food and Drug Administration reports that more than 80 percent of Americans consume caffeine daily with the average being three cups of coffee a day per

  • Avoid Slumber Road

    According to the National Sleep Foundation's "Sleep in America" poll, 60 percent of adult drivers, about 168 million people, say they have driven a vehicle while feeling drowsy in the past year. More than one-third, 37 percent or 103 million people, have actually fallen asleep at the wheel. In fact,

  • PUBLIC WANTS STIFFER PENALTIES FOR TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

    New findings from a National Safety Council opinion poll indicate 73 percent of respondents think there should be more enforcement of texting laws, while only 22 percent said the current level of enforcement is fine.When asked what type of penalties they'd like to see, 52 percent of poll

  • CATCH OF THE DAY - Ensure you don't snag eye during next fishing trip

    Picture this. ... A 39-year-old man casts for salmon. Small twigs from a nearby tree deflect his line, and the three-pronged hook catches his right eye. ... A 21-year-old man rows a boat for a group of fishermen. He takes a hook in the left eye from one of his passengers. ... An 11-year-old boy's

  • HOW $19.99 SAVED MY LIFE

    What's your life worth? One-million dollars? Priceless? What if I told you something that cost me $19.99 saved my life?Two years ago, I paid $19.99 for a bicycle helmet, and recently its value far surpassed its cost.I was doing what a lot of us at Osan Air Base do -- riding my bike. I went to work,

  • RISK MANAGEMENT TRANSFORMATION

    In its continuing pursuit to make risk management a part of its everyday culture, the Air Force released the latest, greatest guidance to this endeavor. Here are some highlights of Air Force Policy Directive 90-8. It dropped the "O" from "operational risk management" and changed it to "risk

  • RISK MANAGEMENT FORMULA COULD HAVE HELPED MAN BURNED BY SUNSCREEN

    Sunscreen is designed to prevent people from getting burned, right? That desired result turned out to be an epic fail for Brett Sigworth. Last summer the Stow, Mass., resident sprayed on some Banana Boat Sport sunscreen, went to tend to some hot charcoal briquettes in his barbecue pit and instantly

  • SLEEPING WITH PETS CAN KILL YOU

    Medical researchers have long shown that contact with pets can often help both the physically and mentally ill. But now, veterinary scientists say sleeping with your pets increases the chances of contracting everything from parasites to the plague. What's a pet owner to do? Most U.S. households have