International Business News - Safe http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/mass-lobstermen-promote-practices-as-whale-safe.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:18:38 EDT New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84526-whale-safe-lobsters.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/mass-lobstermen-promote-practices-as-whale-safe.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/mass-lobstermen-promote-practices-as-whale-safe.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:59:08 EDT A study by Allstate Insurance Co. ranking the nation's safest cities based on internal crash data over a two-year period. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/study-sioux-falls-s-d-safest-us-driving-city.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:10:46 EDT A study by Allstate Insurance Co. ranking the nation's safest cities based on internal crash data over a two-year period. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/study-sioux-falls-s-d-safest-us-driving-city.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:02:33 EDT An insurance study has once again found that Sioux Falls has the safest drivers in the nation, marking the third straight year that South Dakota's largest city has topped the list. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/study-sioux-falls-s-d-safest-us-driving-city.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:02:02 EDT An insurance study has once again found that Sioux Falls has the safest drivers in the nation, marking the third straight year that South Dakota's largest city has topped the list. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/study-sioux-falls-s-d-safest-us-driving-city.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:16:14 EDT Shares of Safe Bulkers Inc. slipped in their first day of trading Thursday, after the drybulk shipper's initial public offering priced at $19 per share, below expectations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/shares-of-safe-bulkers-dip-in-market-debut.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 13:55:17 EDT Shares of Safe Bulkers Inc. are expected to begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange after the drybulk shipper's initial public offering priced at $19 per share, below its expected range. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080529/safe-bulkers-ipo-prices-below-expected-range.htm Thu, 29 May 2008 09:01:55 EDT A locksmith has managed to open a 159-year-old safe from Oregon that baffled other professional safecrackers and an expert from MIT. In 2 1/2 hours, Tom Gorham of Longview got the safe open by spinning the dial and feeling for grooves to get the combination, a technique called manipulation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/locksmith-cracks-ore-safe-that-baffled-mit-expert.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 19:04:58 EDT Greek drybulk shipper Safe Bulkers Inc. said Friday it plans an initial public offering of 10 million shares of common stock at a price of between $20 and $22 per share. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080519/safe-bulkers-plans-initial-public-offering.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 12:05:30 EDT As the waters rose around her house, Ohn Tay grabbed her 8-year-old son and scrambled to safety. Hours later, she gave birth to a baby girl. Her husband is missing, but the young mother and her children are safe _ crammed into a Buddhist monastery with a leaky roof, along with 150 other survivors, half of them children. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44895-aptopix-myanmar-cyclone.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/myanmar-cyclone-victim-takes-solace-in-new-baby.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080508/myanmar-cyclone-victim-takes-solace-in-new-baby.htm Thu, 08 May 2008 17:16:50 EDT Operators of the only legal safe-injection site in North America, where people can inject illegal drugs with clean needles under a nurse's supervision, were in court Monday seeking a permanent exemption from Canada's drug laws. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080428/safe-injection-site-wants-exemption-from-canadas-drug-laws.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:15:18 EDT The Baldacci administration Thursday joined others in support of legislation to more closely regulate toxic chemicals used in toys and other children's products, saying the federal government has fallen short on the job. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080229/maine-supports-bill-to-target-toxic-toys.htm Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:10:41 EST At the urging of lawmakers concerned by recent drug recalls, regulators will start monitoring the use of medicines once they've been approved and are in the hands of doctors and consumers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080226/fda-to-urge-safer-use-of-approved-drugs.htm Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:27:52 EST Britain will not import its own food to the Beijing Olympics. "We have no major concerns about the food in Beijing," Bernard Cotton, head of performance for the British Olympic Association, told reporters Friday in the Chinese territory of Macau. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080222/britain-says-beijing-food-ok.htm Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:38:34 EST A state lawmaker is giving new emphasis to the adage "where there's smoke, there's fire." Rep. Joe Dorman has filed legislation to require that cigarettes sold in Oklahoma be composed of fire-safe materials that automatically extinguish when left unattended. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080108/okla-fire-safe-cigarettes-proposed.htm Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:08:08 EST