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...most state DMVs will call in any driver for assessment who has been reported to them by a police officer, a physician, a relative or any other concerned citizen. As a last resort, some adult children feel compelled to report their own parents. (Six states allow anonymous reporting.) Some complain that their parents' doctors are too timid about intervention. Linda Bryant, an administrative assistant in Orlando, Fla., was incensed when an eye doctor told her 76-year-old father that he was fine to drive. "I wrote the doctor," she says, "that if and when the accident happened...
...there, but the science textbooks are not. The teachers have to be trained. Its time will come. But its time is not now." The emphasis for now is on dissing Darwinism, which opens the door to other explanations without specifically invoking an intelligent creator. Many advocates of intelligent design complain that Darwinism has become a kind of faith in itself. "There's religion on both sides," insists David Keller, a chemistry professor at the University of New Mexico, who taught a seminar on problems with evolution at an anti-Darwin forum in Greenville, S.C., last week...
Neighbors complain that the games are overrunning residential areas--and that some organizers are running prostitution rings on the side. The Ecuadorians deny such charges, defending what they call harmless relaxation after a hard day's labor. "This is an overreaction about other issues," says Wilson Hernandez, a leader in the Ecuadorian community. "Volleyball is just the excuse...
...friend or foe. Why should international relations be any different? That a nation's actions do not benefit the U.S. does not make that nation a foe. Alan Middendorf Longmont, Colorado, U.S. Most Americans are concerned about jobs being moved offshore, as factory after factory cuts workers. We complain bitterly and wonder how all that will play out. Don't Chinese imports spell the end of profitable manufacturing jobs in the U.S.? People shop at Wal-Mart because it's cheaper. We look for better prices on clothes, appliances and vehicles. What's going to happen when China 's manufacturing...
Some critics say the phones are unnecessary because kids so young are rarely left unsupervised by responsible adults. Others complain that the marketing campaigns play on parents' fears and that the phones are an intrusion on childhoods already oversaturated with technology. Think of them, says Gary Ruskin, executive director of the consumer watchdog group Commercial Alert, as "entry points to parents' wallets." --With reporting by Deirdre van Dyk/ New York