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In his new book, The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press; 414 pages), due out in September, Berendt's subject is the death not of a human being but of a building: Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice's 200-year-old gilded treasure chest of an opera house, which burned...
Enlisting the aid of their mother's doctor, her minister and the local police, Haugen and his sister persuaded their mom to get a driving assessment at the DriveWise program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She failed. Mom was off the road, and--who knows?--perhaps another...
After the Santa Monica accident, legislators, state departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and others began putting a premium on older-driver safety. The push is occurring on several fronts: research to identify which drivers need testing, development of more accurate assessment tools, a greater focus on driver remediation and the...
Currently, most state DMVs will call in any driver for assessment who has been reported to them by a police officer, a physician, a relative or any other concerned citizen. As a last resort, some adult children feel compelled to report their own parents. (Six states allow anonymous reporting.) Some...
...Designed the First Eye? The eye couldn't possibly be the product of accidental mutations, say Darwin's critics. Sure, a bird with sharper eyes might catch more prey and have more offspring, but where did the first eye come from? How could a process of gradual improvements produce a complex organ that needs all its parts-pinhole, lens, light-sensitive surface-in order to work? It's no accident, says Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, that the eye resembles a camera, which everybody instantly recognizes as a product someone designed. "If it looks, walks and quacks...