Newspaper Hires Armed Guards After Gun Map Backfire; Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. Newspaper Hires Armed Guards After Gun Map Backfire Bill Seeks to Ban Minting of $1 Trillion Coin Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots Anti-GMO Activist Recants Why Girls Do Better in School Hot Comment: "All but three countries in the world have done it..." From the Vault: IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways Watch It: Making Sake Hot in Texas Poll Booth: How Old Were You When You First Got a Cell Phone? Newspaper Hires Armed Guards After Gun Map Backfire A suburban New York newspaper that published the names and addresses of registered local gun owners in the wake of the Newtown shootings reportedly hired armed guards in response to unspecified threats to the editor. Sound Off>> Bill Seeks to Ban Minting of $1 Trillion Coin Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) has introduced a bill to specifically ban President Barack Obama from minting $1 trillion platinum coins to avert a debt ceiling showdown. Walden called the proposal to mint the coins "absurd and dangerous." Sound Off>> Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots Stirring up controversy over employee rights vs. patient safety, an Indiana hospital has fired eight employees, including at least three veteran nurses, after they refused mandatory flu shots. The hospital imposed mandatory vaccines in September, responding to rising concerns about the spread of influenza. Sound Off>> Anti-GMO Activist Recants During the recent Oxford Farming Conference, environmentalist Mark Lynas, who helped spur the anti-GMO movement in the mid-'90s, apologized for his role in "demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment." He added, "To vilify GMOs is to be as anti-science as climate-change deniers." Sound Off>> Why Girls Do Better in School Researchers from the University of Georgia and Columbia University looked into why young girls earn better grades in elementary school than their male counterparts despite performing worse on standardized tests. And they found it's all in the attitude. Sound Off>> Re: Good luck with that "All but three countries in the world have done it. Are you saying we're unable to cope with an issue that nearly every country has managed to handle?" --by fredgiblet Read More>> IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways Five years ago, self-professed patent reformer IBM snagged a patent for the Variable Rate Toll System, which covers the rather anti-egalitarian scheme of pricing motorists off of the roads by raising tolls as congestion increases. Read More>> Making Sake Hot in Texas After his first visit to Japan, Yoed Anis fell in love with regional styles of sake. So, naturally, Yoed, who has a background in IT programming, learned everything he could about the beverage made from fermented rice and opened the Texas Sake Company. Take a guided tour of the unique brewery. Watch the Video>> How Old Were You When You First Got a Cell Phone? 12 or under 13 - 15 16 - 18 19 - 21 22 or older I don't own one Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.