Spend any time in a resort area or office supply store, you’ll see them for sale: Lasers. They’re seemingly innocuous enough, until you talk to a pilot. Sondra Woodward reports on a new Virginia law that prohibits pointing lasers at aircraft.
Lasers & the Law
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From NPR News- 'Four Little Girls' Awarded Congressional Gold Medal May 24, 2013They were just little girls when they were killed in what came to be known as the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. And now Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley have been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, nearly 50 years after the attack in Birmingham, Ala.
- A Token Gift May Encourage Gift Of Life May 24, 2013Some economists argue it's time to rethink restrictions on incentives for blood donors. In the last few years there have been some real-world experiments with incentives that suggest they can help increase donations without causing trouble.
- Ring Nebula Is More Like A Jelly Doughnut, NASA Says May 24, 2013The Ring Nebula, whose iconic shape and large size make it a favorite of amateur astronomers, can now be seen in new detail, after NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a sharp image of the nebula. Researchers say the new clarity reveals details that were previously unseen, and a structure that's more complex than scientists believed.
- Ex-Guatemalan President Extradited To U.S. May 24, 2013Alfonso Portillo was taken from a hospital bed in Guatemala City and flown to New York to face charges of laundering $70 million through U.S. banks.
- Heart Failure Treatment Improves, But Death Rate Remains High May 24, 2013Treatments with drugs and implanted devices have made it much less likely that people with heart failure will die suddenly. But this chronic disease is still a common killer, researchers say.
- 'Four Little Girls' Awarded Congressional Gold Medal May 24, 2013
- From BBC News
- Wife expected soldier 'to be safe' May 24, 2013The wife of the soldier murdered in a London street says she expected her husband to be safe in the UK.
- Two held after plane alert over UK May 24, 2013Two men are held on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after RAF jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistan Airlines plane in UK airspace.
- Afghan Taliban attack central Kabul May 24, 2013Afghan security forces battle Taliban insurgents for hours in central Kabul, following an explosion that shook the capital.
- BBC abandons £100m digital project May 24, 2013The BBC is to close its Digital Media Initiative, with director general Tony Hall saying it had "wasted a huge amount of licence fee payers' money".
- Bercow's McAlpine tweet libellous May 24, 2013Sally Bercow says she is "surprised and disappointed" after the High Court rules a tweet she published about Tory peer Lord McAlpine was libellous.
- Wife expected soldier 'to be safe' May 24, 2013
