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DriveABLE was originally developed by Canadian neuropsychologist Allen Dobbs to help guide physicians in making driving-fitness decisions about patients with dementia. In a preliminary two-year study, Dobbs tested the performance of three groups of drivers: Alzheimer's patients, normal 65-and-older people and 30-to-40-year-olds. He found that the cognitively impaired drivers made different kinds of errors from normal drivers--errors that could prove deadly. He then created DriveABLE to help evaluators identify the most dangerous drivers...
...perhaps fitting that the media luminaries of his adopted country would lament the Canadian-born Jennings' passing; Cokie Roberts, his ABC colleague for almost twenty years, recalls that it wasn't unusual for Jennings to get misty-eyed when discussing the virtues of the U.S. Constitution. He bragged about acing his 2003 citizenship exam, and was eager to exercise his new rights as a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. "What was so endearing in the 2004 election was just how excited he was to vote for the first time," says Roberts. "Last night, after I heard the news...
Instead in 2002 he sold it to an FM station in Vancouver, where it got so huge, it quickly was bought by five other Canadian stations; in April of last year, a station in Denver bought in, and Jack metastasized. Former Vancouver DJ Howie (the Hitman) Cogan, who voices most of Jack's taped promos, is now repped by William Morris, while Perry has become a sought-after station consultant. "My involvement with Jack now is, 'Oh, look, the check just came in,'" he says...
With more than 120 fast-food chains clogging commercial arteries in the U.S., is there really room for another? Paul House, president of the quietly expanding Tim Hortons restaurant chain, thinks so. Since Wendy's International bought the Canadian institution in 1995, Tim's (as the chain is often called) has opened more than 250 stores in the U.S., and it plans to double that number by 2008. "We would like to become the biggest brand in the U.S.," House avows...
With a bracing lack of melodrama, Canadian Leslie Feist whisper-sings her way through a classic fadeaway ballad. The instrumentation is spare, and the lyrics are of the "Don't you wish/ We could forget that kiss" variety, but Feist's warm vocal performance makes failing relationships sound so romantic. --By Josh Tyrangiel