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...aggressive lobbying by auto-safety advocates--have helped push 45 states to adopt some form of graduated driver licensing, or GDL, which lengthens the waiting period before teens can obtain a full "go anywhere, anytime" driver's license. Slowing down the process has slowed down the accident rate. Per-capita crashes have fallen 23% among 16-year-old drivers in California since its strict GDL law was enacted in 1998, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reported in August. The state's late-night crashes were down 27%, and crashes with teen passengers were down 38%. Similar drops have...
...European-style development model with a welfare state, to a U.S.-inspired model, with increased competition, entrepreneurship and risk and more working hours. "That means less time for friendship and community," he says. "That may make countries more competitive, but it makes people less happy, especially when per capita income is less than $10,000 a year." Brunner adds that inequality remains a hurdle: While rapid economic development continues to be a priority in Chile, there's also a need for better income distribution and education and a stronger welfare net and social ties...
...artillery, our snipers (much better than theirs), and every weapon that an infantryman can carry. Every day. Incredibly, I rarely see Ramadi in the news. We have as many attacks out here in the west as Baghdad. Yet, Baghdad has 7 million people, we have just 1.2 million. Per capita, al-Anbar province is the most violent place in Iraq by several orders of magnitude. I suppose it was no accident that the Marines were assigned this area...
...there are growing pains: the unemployment rate has fallen so sharply, from 14% in 2000 to about 4% today, that businesses are scrambling to find workers. But even if growth slows a little to a more sustainable rate, Estonia could catch up with Portugal and Greece on a per-capita basis in about a decade. "This is the best time in our history," says Sten Tamkivi, Skype's Estonian head of operations. So much so that the country's tech employers are hugely grateful for the workers they have. "Every evening I'm almost standing at the door and asking...
...still a lot of catching up to do. Productivity remains below the E.U. average, as does the average monthly wage of $650. "We're just halfway," says Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, whose aim is for Estonia to become one of the five wealthiest E.U. nations on a per-capita basis in the next 15 years. He heads a different party from that of Economics Minister Savisaar and doesn't see why anybody should take issue with the current policies. "When the economy is growing so fast it's very difficult to complain," he says, describing life in the country...