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Evidence overwhelmingly indicates that texting makes driving—an already dangerous activity—much more accident-prone. A study released by Virginia Tech found that the risk of an accident increases 23 times. A casual test by Car and Driver magazine, performed in actual cars, found that drivers...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Bring Texting to a Standstill | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

While some have called these programs an overly emotional guilt trip, the star power these occasions manage to draw doesn't hurt their cause. Frank Sinatra's performance in the 1976 MDA telethon proved particularly momentous for both the audience and Lewis himself. When Sinatra emerged, he brought Lewis' former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telethons | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

What does Iran's pedagogical state produce after 12 years of schooling? Certainly not the "Islamic Citizen" envisioned by state planners, nor the fanatical partisan imagined by the Islamic Republic's critics in the West. At best, schools contribute to a shared framework for consent and opposition to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to School in Iran: How to Deal with a Bad Summer | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

A protagonist like Joel is a sitting duck about to have his world upended; think Jeff Daniels in Something Wild or another sexually frustrated Joel, the one played by Tom Cruise in Risky Business. From the first frames of the film, in which a kittenish con woman named Cindy (Mila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Judge's Extract: Full of Flavor | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, the “Lion of the Senate” and the last remaining son of the prominent Democratic political family, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday after a funeral mass packed with political dignitaries...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ted Kennedy Dies at 77 | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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