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  • It’s so hot in Arizona, doctors are treating a spike of patients who were burned by falling on the ground

    07/24/2023 6:31:27 AM PDT · by Callahan · 88 replies
    CNN ^ | 7/24/23 | Jen Christenson
    It is so hot in Maricopa County, Arizona, that people are being brought into the emergency room with significant, sometimes life-threatening burns. For the past three or four weeks of this record heatwave, people have been burned just by falling on the ground. Construction workers gather together in the shade on July 11, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Record-breaking temperatures continue soaring as prolonged heatwaves sweep across the country's southwest. Heat can kill on the job, and these workers are dying “Summers are our busy season, so we anticipate that this sort of thing is going to happen. But this is...
  • Non-believers raising voice in capital

    09/19/2005 11:21:03 PM PDT · by Crackingham · 92 replies · 1,256+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 9/19/05 | Jill Lawrence
    Americans who don't believe in God have decided it's time they had a lobbyist in the nation's capital. Their new advocate describes herself as a "soft, fuzzy atheist." Lori Lipman Brown starts Monday as executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. Her two goals: keep religion out of government and win respect for a stigmatized minority. The magnitude of those challenges is, well, biblical. Think Daniel entering the lion's den, or David taking on Goliath. Christian conservatives wield enormous clout here through a network of advocacy groups and relationships with politicians from President Bush on down. Atheists, humanists and...