Month: June 2014

By Jennifer Chaussee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – It could soon be a lot harder for people bent on suicide to leap from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, as California state officials approved a funding plan on Friday to install mesh barriers beneath the historic span to catch jumpers before they hit the water. "It's a very emotional day, but it's very historic," said David Campos, a San Francisco city supervisor and a board member of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. “It’s a unanimous vote for life today at the board.”  On Friday, the board of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District voted unanimously to accept state funding for the plan negotiated by state senate leader Darrell Steinberg and San Francisco lawmakers.  “It has been an uphill fight," said state assemblyman Tom Ammiano, who has fought for over a decade to secure funding for the barrier. “But here we are, almost shovel ready.”  Last year, 48 people jumped to their deaths from the span, which hovers high above San Francisco Bay and connects the city of San Francisco with suburban Marin County.

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Thai health authorities on Friday said cigarette packets will carry warnings on the risks of smoking across 85 percent of their surface, in a blow to tobacco companies who had fiercely opposed the move. The warnings — featuring gruesome photographs of smoking-related ailments — will increase from 55 to 85 percent of the surface of both sides of every cigarette packet, according to the kingdom's Ministry of Public Health. Last year tobacco giant Philip Morris was among leading cigarette firms to challenge the ministry's move in the court, prompting the suspension of the plan.

A US laboratory sold across at least eight countries blood samples taken without consent from an indigenous group, Ecuador alleged Friday after a months-long investigation. The samples were taken from the Huaorani ethnic group of about 3,000 people who live in a corner of Ecuador's isolated Amazon basin region, it is alleged. The New Jersey-based Coriell Institute for Medical Research "eventually sold it in at least eight countries," Maria Del Pilar Troya, undersecretary of state for education and science, told AFP. Germany, Brazil, Canada, the United States, India, Italy, Japan and Singapore were among the countries in which Ecuador believes the specimens were sold.

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