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Those findings--and aggressive lobbying by auto-safety advocates--have helped push 45 states to adopt some form of graduated driver licensing, or GDL, which lengthens the waiting period before teens can obtain a full "go anywhere, anytime" driver's license. Slowing down the process has slowed down the accident rate. Per-capita crashes have fallen 23% among 16-year-old drivers in California since its strict GDL law was enacted in 1998, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reported in August. The state's late-night crashes were down 27%, and crashes with teen passengers were down...
When TIME asked MADONNA this summer about rumors that the mother of two might adopt a child, her response was a coy "Never say never." That's pop-star speak for "Very soon." A judge in Malawi last week approved her bid to take home a motherless 1-year-old, a move applauded by the boy's father. But local rights groups still objected. Apparently Madge's efforts to raise millions of dollars to help the sub-Saharan country's 900,000 or so orphans doesn't change the fact that she's no Angelina Jolie...
...Army will adopt a new recruiting slogan in November: "Army Strong." The line is supposed to associate the service with physical and emotional strength. And maybe grammatical confusion...
Rarely, however, do humans adopt such a critical eye towards the personages who serve as sociopolitical leaders in our world today. This blind spot cripples the citizens of our democracy and the international community, preventing them from making informed judgments about those in political office and those who serve as beacons of religious faith...
Last week, news outlets around the world announced that Madonna was reinventing herself, yet again. Although she has not abandoned using sex and religion to get attention, she has found a new way to drum up record sales: charity. The former material girl was to adopt a one-year-old boy from Malawi, an African country with one million children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.Only 24 hours after this story broke, however, Madonna’s publicist insisted that the performer was not so much adopting one child but “kind of adopting an entire country of children...