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...driver's seat. Truckers texting behind the wheel were 23 times as likely to get into an accident or near miss as those focused on the road, according to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, which collected data from 6 million miles of driving. The group warned of a "crash epidemic" if the problem is not curbed. Dialing a phone was also hazardous, though talking did not raise accident rates...
Truck drivers' risk of a crash or near miss, distracted vs. undistracted...
...rest of the system still is. The couple rattle off houses in their new neighborhood that are for sale by desperate, underwater owners. Through the Robertses' kitchen window, they can see tall weeds in the empty lot next door. Their house was built in 2005, but then the crash came. The builder has yet to return to finish the development. (See pictures of high-end homes that won't sell...
...practical matter, it also requires a profound humility, since the amateur must throw himself into situations where he's uncertain and even ignorant, and therefore obliged to figure out new ways of seeing problems and fresh ways of solving them. At this particular American inflection point, after the crash and before the rebuild, frankly admitting that we aren't absolutely certain how to proceed is liberating, and crucial. I like paradoxes, which is why, even though I'm not particularly religious, Zen Buddhism has always appealed to me. Take the paradoxical state that Buddhists seek to achieve, what they call...
...early on Aug. 6, frustrating millions of users. For the culprits, all it took to snarl the popular social-networking site was one of the oldest tools in the Internet hacker handbook: the distributed denial-of-service attack (commonly shortened to DDoS), a method that has been used to crash some of the Web's largest sites, including Yahoo...