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They concluded that children sitting in the front seat of a car during an accident were 31 percent more likely to be killed in the accident, even when wearing a seat belt. If children were not wearing seatbelts, fatality rates rose to 84 percent.

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: Airbags May Help Older Children | 11/2/2000 | See Source »

A certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few More Good Men | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

In the days following the accident, which also killed Carnahan's son Randy and a longtime adviser, national Democratic strategists floundered as they tried to find a way to salvage one of the party's best chances at a U.S. Senate seat. By law, it was too late to replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Run Against a Dead Man? Not Easily | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

Yet in Prodigal Summer there is, despite the relaxed tone, Kingsolver's by now trademark didacticism. She does not subscribe to the view that novelists with a message ought to send a telegram. It can be no accident that three of the four main characters in the novel have worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Familiar Ground | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

DIED. MEL CARNAHAN, 66, Missouri Governor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate; in a plane crash; near St. Louis, Mo. Elected Governor in 1992, he famously stood by tough decisions despite political aftershocks--such as honoring Pope John Paul II's request that he stay the execution of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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