States Slash Workers’ Compensation, Denying Injured Workers Badly Needed Benefits
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States Slash Workers’ Compensation, Denying Injured Workers Badly Needed Benefits

ByKyle W. Bell

Dennis Whedbee’s crew was rushing to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site, a speck of dusty plains rich with crude in Mandaree, North Dakota. It was getting late that September afternoon in 2012. Whedbee, a 50-year-old derrickhand, was helping another worker remove a pipe fitting on top of…

NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ Broadcasts from Notre Dame
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NPR’s ‘Science Friday’ Broadcasts from Notre Dame

ByKyle W. Bell

Science Friday traveled to South Bend for a live show at the University of Notre Dame this past week. In a packed auditorium at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Ira chatted with experts on subjects ranging from forensic entomology, John Harvey Kellogg’s Battle Creek Sanitarium, and Studebakers to detecting art forgeries and tracking invasive species….