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...Using scientific evidence is not intended to diminish an individual’s condition but to try to convince people an illness is no way qualitatively different from high blood pressure,” Hyman said...
...Robert Rawley, head of the medical advisory board for the Maryland department of motor vehicles, is studying 2,500 drivers at five-year intervals to see how age affects skills. He says that as vision starts to diminish, drivers are blinded by the halo effect of lights at night and are less able to judge the speed of oncoming cars. As physical changes such as arthritis set in, some older drivers find it more difficult to turn their head to check their blind spot. "With functional testing, we can identify where drivers are having problems...
...Powell has purposely worked to diminish expectations that he'll pull a cease-fire out of a hat. But what he has begun to do is reinvigorate discussion over a political settlement, hoping to start a process that clarifies a viable and attractive destination for both sides in order to entice them, once again, to resume their painful journey towards peace...
...lack the means, now, to enforce one. "Operation Defensive Shield" has systematically targeted Palestinian Authority security structures, and left them badly degraded. And it is on those very structures that a cease-fire agreement would depend for policing Palestinian militants. Not surprisingly, the White House has been working to diminish expectations of Powell's trip achieving a truce...
...school faculty say that amount of work left doesn’t diminish the importance of changes made...