safety

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Fact or Fiction?

Halloween Safety Scary Stories Halloween is meant to be scary, if you ask me. But there’s a real difference between being scared by a movie or haunted house, and being scared for your own safety. Fortunately, lots of the things that scare us around Halloween can be made less
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It’s Like Riding A Bike

Things I’ve Forgotten About Cycling Today I completed a beach-life rite of passage: I used my bicycle as transportation on an actual road with cars. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t used a bike as transportation in about a dozen years. I got myself a beach cruiser from a
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Both riding and push mowers can cause harm if not operated safely. (Patrick Mansell/Penn State)

Summer Safety

Avoid Lawn Mower Injuries This Summer Grass is into high growing gear, prompting homeowners everywhere to pull out the mower in hopes of cutting order into their lawns. That means that emergency departments begin seeing more injuries caused by this most familiar piece of
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