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...Robert Rawley, head of the medical advisory board for the Maryland department of motor vehicles, is studying 2,500 drivers at five-year intervals to see how age affects skills. He says that as vision starts to diminish, drivers are blinded by the halo effect of lights at night and are less able to judge the speed of oncoming cars. As physical changes such as arthritis set in, some older drivers find it more difficult to turn their head to check their blind spot. "With functional testing, we can identify where drivers are having problems...
...CORRECTIVE MIRRORS Wider rearview and side mirrors, adjusted properly, can eliminate blind spots and compensate for decreased mobility in the neck...
...DEFENSIVE-DRIVING COURSES Driver's-education classes designed for older people, such as those offered by the AARP, AAA and National Safety Council, can teach how to maintain a safe distance between cars, estimate blind spots and properly merge into oncoming traffic...
...situation has become so bad that last month 18 foreign students, mainly from African and Asian countries, studying at Rostov Medical University chose to leave Russia for good. They had been subjected to repeated beatings and insults by local skinheads, while the police turned a blind eye. At a conference held last week in Moscow to discuss dangers to foreign students, representatives of Russian universities said that in the face of police indifference they would have to hire private guards and form self-defense teams to protect their 70,000 foreign students...
Kirch, 75 and partially blind as a result of diabetes, finally stopped his wheeling and dealing last week. He sent a letter to employees thanking them for their loyalty. "I would have liked to stand and care for our company and your future," Kirch wrote. "But the leadership was taken out of my hands." Germany's largest bankruptcy since World War II marked an ignominious end for Kirch, who began his career in 1956 by borrowing DM 25,000 from his wife's family to buy the rights to Federico Fellini's La Strada. By the end, Kirch had amassed...