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...deaths of newly licensed 16-year-olds surged about 50% between 1975 and 1996. Even more troubling than the rising body count are the reasons behind it. Alcohol, the main culprit in teen accidents in the '80s, is now much less of a problem, thanks to a major educational blitz. Instead, safety specialists blame the sort of naive errors that killed Wells and her friends. Citing cutbacks in driver education by schools, experts contend that young motorists simply have inadequate skills. Sean McLaurin, a highway-safety specialist for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, laments, "It's a silent epidemic...
...real twist in the fairy tale is that the emphasis has been snatched from the damsel and invested in Prince Charming instead. Doubtless, as one can tell from the promotional blitz, the producers must have meant to market Cook aggressively at one point. However, once the camera alighted on Prime, seen previously in both installments of that I Know...Summer series, they simply had to surrender the film to him. He is a magnet in front of the camera. In comparison, Laney Boggs is a mere prop to his masculine narrative. In both screen time and plot weight, Prinze...
...losses are expected to continue at least through 1999. Bezos insists that focusing on profits during this growth phase would be a "strategic mistake." Amazon's proponents believe market share is what matters, and the company will reap its earnings rewards when online buying heats up and its marketing blitz cools down. Says Henry Blodget, an analyst with CIBC Oppenheimer: "They are investing money, not 'losing' money...
Betting is heavy that Attorney General JANET RENO won't call for an independent counsel to investigate BILL CLINTON'S role in the Democratic Party's 1995-96 blitz of "issue advocacy" ads. Justice Department lawyers are having trouble defining a crime that might have occurred. Most similar election-law violations are handled as civil, not criminal, matters; whether or not a candidate can participate in his party's issue ads is an unsettled matter...
...touch pads and eraser-head pointers on notebook computers are great space savers but aren't much good for dodging a tackle in NFL Blitz or going for the goal in Fox Sports Soccer 99. The Gravis Stinger ($40), designed especially for notebooks, handily plugs into a serial port (rather than the game port notebooks lack) but is nearly as bulky as the computers it plugs into...