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...vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney announced, "We may be on the front edge of a recession"; in January, when Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said, "There is no doubt that we are experiencing a slowdown"; and in February, when Bush claimed that "a warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy...
...being promoted as safety features. Earlier this year, General Motors began selling Virtual Advisor, a hands-free, voice-activated system that allows drivers to make phone calls, access e-mail and get news, sports and stock quotes--all simply by pressing a button and talking to the dashboard...
...obscured by the feet of students standing on or past it, bodies tightly pressed against one another, filling buses over capacity. Nor would it be unusual if you hadn't noticed the sign warning passengers of the line, often blocked from view by students who have turned the wide dashboard of a bus into an overflow seating area. Indeed, if you rode a shuttle bus every morning, it wouldn't be unusual if hadn't noticed Harvard taking any concern for student safety...
...result is a safety hazard of the worst kind. Some students pack into bus stairwells, blocking exits and exerting a dangerous pressure on buses' retractable doors. Others make themselves comfortable by sitting on the dashboard, almost entirely obstructing the driver's view of traffic. As one driver candidly remarked, "students cram in just about everywhere except my lap." Indeed, the Mather-Science Center shuttle was so crowded last Monday morning that the driver had to rely on students near the window to tell him when traffic was clear--a fact that was particularly disturbing in light of the perilous road...
...Mather resident found her driver's side window smashed, her dashboard wrecked and her car stereo stolen, along with another sound system...