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...meaning the death rate for SUVs was slightly higher. Why? There are several reasons, but in blunt comments last month, Dr. Jeffrey Runge, the NHTSA administrator, highlighted the most important: partly because of their high center of gravity--a feature drivers love--SUVs are prone to tip over. Rollovers account for more than half of SUV fatalities, Runge said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The SUV Is All The Rage | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...LSAs (lifetime savings accounts) would be the most flexible, similar to Roth IRAs but with annual after-tax contributions of up to $7,500 per person a year. Contri-butions wouldn't need to be from earned income, and account holders could withdraw any amount, at any age and for any reason, free of tax and penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Piggy Has Wings | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured of romanticism, his story dwells on the conflict that comes with being a resident outsider: a fear of stepping into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Shelf | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...broadcasts over their handsets. The signal - a news broadcast from TV 3, a public station in Bratislava, Slovakia - was picked up by a server in Prague and compressed for viewing on a mobile phone. From there the signal was bounced to the subscribers' global packet radio switched (GPRS) network account in Warsaw, then transferred via automatic roaming to the Orange GPRS network in Cannes, and then on to the subscribers' Nokia 3650 phones on the Sunny Dream. The demo was part of this year's big story at the 3GSM World Congress mobile technology trade fair in Cannes: video streaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 2/23/2003 | See Source »

Previous studies had relied on an absolute scale of intensity that doesn’t account for differences in participants’ fitness...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Researchers Find Good Exercise Is All in the Head | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

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