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...SNAFUS It's well known that auto air bags can kill children under age 13 who are riding in the passenger seat. But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says about half of parents with pickup trucks, the vehicles that have air-bag cutoff switches, still don't use the switches as intended--to shut off the air bags and thus protect front-seat kids. Citing the "widespread misuse" of the switches, NHTSA recommended automakers develop air bags that can turn off automatically when a child is riding up front...
Other opponents said that 18 should remain the cutoff age, adding that students can get involved in politics in other ways, such as volunteering for campaigns and attending public meetings...
...caution—after all, AIDS used to be spread through blood transfusions—it seems to have gone overboard in trying to prevent a similar tragedy in the future. The form did not allow for vegetarians; it had no blank lines for explanation. Six months was the cutoff. What if someone had lived there for five and a half months and eaten beef every day? The people just shook their heads and ushered me out. Too bad for me: I was proscribed indefinitely from giving blood...
...mistakes continued. Crimson outfielders misjudged two wind-aided fly balls that turned into extra base hits. Junior right fielder Javy Lopez missed the cutoff man in the fourth inning on one of these, turning Rhode Island shortstop Mike LaBarbera’s double into an easy triple...
Neither side can really believe that universal keycard access (UKA), or the lack thereof, will make students more or less safe. There's no way the students who have been pressuring the Committee on House Life to expand UKA past its current 1 a.m. cutoff have the safety of their fellows at heart...