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Today’s Headlines

D’oh! “Cash for clunkers” is headed for the scrap bin, four days after it began (NYT) Verizon, the nation’s largest wireless carrier, supports congressional ban on texting while driving (InfoWeek) Two years after Minnesota’s fatal bridge collapse, the state’s riskiest bridges are missing out on stimulus money (AP) Government investigators find 20 “living dead” … … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:48 AM EDT on July 31, 2009

D’oh! “Cash for clunkers” is headed for the scrap bin, four days after it began (NYT)
Verizon, the nation’s largest wireless carrier, supports congressional ban on texting while driving (InfoWeek)

Two years after Minnesota’s fatal bridge collapse, the state’s riskiest bridges are missing out on stimulus money (AP)
Government investigators find 20 “living dead” … and they’re bus companies (Reuters)
Researchers working on a super-sensitive yawn detector for over-tired drivers (Wired)

Elana Schor

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