| Fireworks safety: Tips for a happy and healthy Independence Day |
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| Thursday, June 25, 2009 | |
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It’s hard to resist the allure of fireworks on the Fourth of July. After all, it’s the oldest celebration in the nation. But each year, thousands of careless revelers are injured. According to a 2007 report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 11 people died and approximately 9,200 were treated in emergency departments for fireworks-related injuries in 2006. About five percent of the injured required admission to the hospital. For full release |
CAROLINA IN THE NEWS
Swimmers, poets among 2010 Rhodes Scholars from USThe Associated Press
When Henry Spelman found out he'd won a Rhodes Scholarship, his first call was to his girlfriend. To share the good news, of course, but also to see whether she was a winner as well. The couple, both seniors at the University of North Carolina, had done their final scholarship interviews apart - he in Philadelphia, she in Houston. Spelman heard the results first. When he called with his good news, "the stakes just went way up," said his girlfriend, Libby Longino, who had to wait 45 minutes before finding out that she, too, had nabbed one of the world's most prestigious scholarships.