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...trouble. Across the region, drought, agricultural diversions and overgrazing have done measurable damage, and there are examples in Snake Valley. "We're worried about southern Nevada because we know what we're doing to ourselves," says rancher Dean Baker. "And that's just a drop in the bucket compared to what they're talking about...
Another assessment tool being developed is the driving simulator. An interactive simulator created by Northeastern University engineering professor Ron Mourant is currently being used at the University of Virginia's Driving Safety Laboratory. Equipped with a bucket seat and real car controls, the simulator offers drivers a virtual-reality road test. Some experts are worried that seniors' unfamiliarity with the high-tech setting may affect results, but others argue that simulators can project dangerous scenarios that would be unsafe on the road. Mourant views the simulator as a tool of persuasion: to help older drivers see their weaknesses and voluntarily...
...must know the story: saintly, poverty-stricken Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) and his family live hard by the Wonka works, the day-to-day upkeep of which Willy (Johnny Depp) has turned over to the Oompa-Loompas. He hides five golden tickets in his candy bars, the finders of which are entitled to visit his factory. Besides Charlie, the lucky--ultimately unlucky--winners include a glutton, an overachiever, a video-game addict and a spoiled rich kid, all of whom get sadistic comeuppances from Willy that will perhaps disturb parents more than they will their offspring, since kids have...
...seen Harvard management subvert the truth repeatedly for the purpose of winning. Money is another weapon for them, withholding it from deserving employees, using it to mount an overwhelming defense, and then punishing plaintiffs by handing them a bill for an amount that would be a drop in the bucket for them, but very burdensome for an underpaid employee,” she said...
...101 heat, FBI agents swarmed over an earthen dam on Olen Barrage's Old Jolly Farm, six miles southwest of Philadelphia, Miss. Through the scrub pines and bitterweed, they bulldozed a path to the dam, then brought up a lumbering dragline whose huge bucket shovel began chewing a V-shaped wedge out of the 25-ft.-high levee. Twenty feet down, the shovel uncovered the fully clothed, badly decomposed bodies of three young men, lying side by side in a pocket of red clay. They had been dumped there while the dam was still being built, and in the weeks...