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...more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than the driver's personality. So if you come across the SWEAT-BOX OF DEATH--a name actually given by one of the study's participants to his Ford Bronco--steer clear...
...have meant the difference between victory and defeat. Though the study was only based on this particular election, the results can be extrapolated to elections nationwide, said Erzo F. P. Luttmer, an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School and one of the study’s co-authors. “Californian voters are no more or less likely to make mistakes. The technology used was the same,” he said. “There were a larger number of candidates, which might have increased people’s chances of being confused...
Unless their genes were switched, males would not normally head-butt in battle, and females would not lunge, said Berry Professor of Neurobiology Edward A. Kravitz, a co-author of the study...
...proverbial choir. Director Richard Linklater’s much-anticipated feature film “Fast Food Nation” is not a documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author. “Fast Food Nation” imbeds facts about the American fast food industry in specious “real people” vignettes, hoping to make the statistics come alive with a Hollywood budget and a star-studded cast and crew. Cinematographer Lee Daniel has worked extensively...
DIED. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author, with her brother Frank Gilbreth Jr., of the wry best seller Cheaper by the Dozen, an affectionate account of growing up in a family with 12 children; in Fresno, Calif. Warmly received for the homage it pays to the eccentric Gilbreth parents--who ran a charmingly chaotic household that felt like a "newspaper on election night"--the book spawned a 1950 film and a 2003 remake starring Steve Martin...