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...issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, looks at data from 46 states and is one of the most comprehensive studies on the impact of drunk-driving laws in the U.S. It finds that suspending a drunk driver's license immediately at the time of arrest reduces alcohol-related fatal crash involvement by 5%, which translates to at least 800 lives being spared in the U.S. per year...
...because some other cancer still causes a death, you say that the first isn't effective? That's just not the case. The fact that some drivers still drive under a suspended license is true, but it's also true that the death rate is down and the fatal crash rate is down...
Outside, we encountered André Marino, 26. He had been in the terminal, listening to the air traffic control tower radio, when the plane crashed. An amateur pilot attending private pilot school at the Aeroclube of São Paulo, he said that listening in on tower communications is “almost a sport” for air enthusiasts. He had not heard anything out of the ordinary until the crash...
...current estimated death toll, including people in the street and those trapped in the warehouse, is over 200 people. The warehouse, unfortunately, was a 24-hour post, and thus many TAM workers were inside at the time of the crash. Some eyewitnesses said some workers escaped by jumping out of the second story and running from the building. But many died inside. By the time the fire waned it had already gutted the entire building...
While television news channels are just starting to name the dead, the Internet already has asserted its role in chronicling the tragedy. Shortly after news of the crash made it onto television, users of Orkut, the dominant Brazilian social-networking website, had already created a “community.” By 1 a.m. it had more than 2,300 members. Just as Facebook.com and Myspace users memorialized the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings of April 16, Brazilians are already using similar mediums to ascertain the living and memorialize the dead...