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Concerns were raised about its security as early as 2001, [21] dramatically demonstrated in 2005 by the FBI, [22] yet in 2007 T.J. Maxx admitted a massive security breach due in part to a reliance on WEP [23] and the Payment Card Industry took until 2008 to prohibit its use – and even then allowed existing use to continue until June 2010. [24]
The key areas of controversy related to genetically modified food (GM food or GMO food) are whether such food should be labeled, the role of government regulators, the objectivity of scientific research and publication, the effect of genetically modified crops on health and the environment, the effect on pesticide resistance, the impact of such ...
Pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses escalated in April 2024, spreading in the United States and other countries, as part of wider Gaza war protests.With over 3,100 protesters arrested in the U.S., universities suspended and expelled student protesters, in some cases evicting them from campus housing, and relied on police to forcibly disband occupations.
Prior to August 2014, additional chlorine had been added to eliminate bacteria from the Flint River. This is likely the cause of a spike in trihalomethanes, unsafe chlorine byproducts, in one of eight water locations. [161] Long-term exposure to these chemicals has been linked to cancer and other diseases.
Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. is an American company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii.The company currently operates businesses in real estate, land operations, and materials and construction.
The Chernobyl release was characterized by the physical and chemical properties of the radio-isotopes in the core. Particularly dangerous were the highly radioactive fission products, those with high nuclear decay rates that accumulate in the food chain, such as some of the isotopes of iodine, caesium and strontium. Iodine-131 was and caesium ...
Gosnell was born on February 9, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the only child of a gas station operator and a government clerk. [21] [22] He was a student at the city's Central High School, from which he graduated in 1959.
The nascent environmental movement in Turkey was unable to prevent many more coal-fired power stations being built, but did stop some. [26] After years of struggle by environmentalists standards, such as for flue-gas desulfurization , were finally improved at the end of the 2010s. [ 27 ]