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Guide dog and blind owner refused taxi service at Halifax airport.

Global Edmonton 

According to the airport authority, all taxi drivers who provide services at the airport have a special license and under those conditions, are required to accept people who have guide dogs unless they have a medical note saying they can't.

Lawmakers buy industry fix to secure schools from gunmen

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Security companies spent years pushing schools to buy more products — from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons that spew haze from ceilings to confuse a shooter. But sales were slow, and industry’s campaign to free up taxpayer money for upgrades had stalled. That changed in February, when a former student shot and killed 17 people at a Florida high school. Publicly, the rampage reignited the U.S. gun-control debate. Privately, it propelled industry efforts to sell school fortification... Читать дальше...



Knotted Gun Sculpture Unveiled in Beirut

Voice of America 

A copy of a knotted gun sculpture which has become an emblem for peace was unveiled Tuesday in Lebanon's capital Beirut near a tower block whose shattered facade evokes the civil war that once ripped the city apart. Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward made the original sculpture, a revolver with its barrel tied in a knot, as a tribute to John Lennon after he was shot in New York in 1980. It stands outside the United Nations building in Manhattan, and the Non-Violence Project Foundation, created by Reutersward... Читать дальше...

Science fiction into reality: Nobel Prize honors laser work

Times Union 

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists from the United States, Canada and France won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for revolutionizing the use of lasers in research, finding ways to make them deliver more powerful flashes of light and even to act like tiny tweezers. Their work paved the way for laser eye surgery to improve vision and studies that can manipulate cells and their innards. Two winners also made history for other reasons. Arthur Ashkin, the American who developed "optical tweezers," became the oldest Nobel Prize laureate at age 96. Читать дальше...

Science fiction into reality: Nobel Prize honors laser work

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists from the United States, Canada and France won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for revolutionizing the use of lasers in research, finding ways to make them deliver more powerful flashes of light and even to act like tiny tweezers. Their work paved the way for laser eye surgery to improve vision and studies that can manipulate cells and their innards. Two winners also made history for other reasons. Arthur Ashkin, the American who developed "optical tweezers," became the oldest Nobel Prize laureate at age 96. Читать дальше...

Pompeo to meet with North Korea's Kim on Sunday

TheHill.com 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week as part of his upcoming trip to Asia, the State Department announced on Tuesday.State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Pompeo will meet with&...

Twitter Will Livestream 5 Pregame Shows During the Major League Baseball Playoffs

Adweek.com 

Twitter is settling in for the 2018 Major League Baseball postseason with five special livestreamed pregame shows, as well as hashtag-triggered emojis for every playoff club. The schedule for Twitter's livestreamed pregame shows--which will feature highlights, breakdowns and analysis and be available exclusively via live.twitter.com/mlb and @MLB--follows (all start times are two hours before that...

[Men's Soccer] Men's Soccer climbs to No. 21 in Top 25

Spring Arbor University Baseball 

NAIA MEN'S SOCCER COACHES' TOP 25 POLL

SPRING ARBOR, Mich. – Spring Arbor University moved up one spot to No. 21 in the fifth regular season edition of the NAIA Men's Soccer Coaches' Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Tuesday.

Government ramps up R&D tax incentive

Scoop 

The Coalition Government is backing businesses to succeed with a new tax incentive that aims to unlock further spending on research and development.





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