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Workers are pushing to improve training and safety standards to help avoid falls, electrocution, and equipment failure.

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More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak ...

In August, 1945, American pilots dropped newly engineered atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, evaporating tens of thousands of people in an instant, and killing many tens of thousands more in the ...

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Biostatistician Jeffrey Morris says effective dialogue requires an awareness of how politics shape a person's beliefs.