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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 complain that their parents' doctors are too timid about intervention. Linda Bryant, an administrative assistant in Orlando, Fla., was incensed when an eye doctor told her 76-year-old father that he was fine to drive. "I wrote the doctor," she says, "that if and when the accident happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Us Crazy | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

...walk normally and didn't have any debilitating chronic diseases. Most likely she succumbed to an infection or bad water or tainted food, as did some 50% of ancient Egyptian children within a year or two of being weaned. The bones and teeth also helped fix her age; her adult teeth hadn't grown in yet. And her gilded face mask indicated that her parents were wealthy. With higher-res scans, scientists may someday make out the hieroglyphs on the inside of the cartonnage--and thus, perhaps, give the little one back her rightful name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of a 2,000-Year-Old Child | 8/8/2005 | See Source »

...newly-legal adult who, if all goes well, will receive a college degree in a few short months, it’s probably natural that I have a strong desire to prove I can be self-sufficient. This summer I have demonstrated to myself that I can take care of my material needs, and I have found the sense of anonymity in a big city more invigorating than overwhelming...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, | Title: Phoning Home | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...considered a homosexual, that there was a transvestite in jail who was making these allegations and prosecutors had taken those allegations and released them to the public,? DeFede says. ?Art was devastated by this. Art was talking to me about the impact this was having on his adult son whose mother had just passed away, how the ministers in the black churches would not defend him if he was homosexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Suicide and a Dismissal | 8/4/2005 | See Source »

...important step because a dog's reproductive system is slightly different from that of other mammals. The eggs of dogs, which are needed to grow the resulting clone (in this case, a cell from the ear of an adult Afghan hound was the genesis of the cloned puppy) do not mature in the ovary, but instead finish their development in the oviduct. It's much easier for scientists to obtain eggs from the ovary than from the oviduct. Many researchers have tried, but failed to get the timing right to get the most mature eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Your Dog Be Cloned? | 8/4/2005 | See Source »

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