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Having the opportunity to say goodbye, even during a stress-filled period of caregiving, not only may make the mourning process a bit easier to bear but also just might point the way to the survivor's new identity in the world of widowhood. Sherron Driver, 62, was her husband James' caregiver for the last eight years of his life as he valiantly struggled with heart disease and respiratory ailments. "We talked a lot about life and death. He told me he wanted me to continue on with my life, to be a model for our children," recalls Driver...
...each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than the driver's personality. So if you come across the SWEAT-BOX OF DEATH--a name actually given by one of the study's participants to his Ford Bronco--steer clear. He's awfully territorial...
...quoted “alcohol-related” numbers are about as relevant to the problem of drunk driving as the ratio of cars to bumblebees. These numbers, rolled out by MADD like WWI howitzers, do not evaluate whether drinking actually contributed to the accident. So, if a sober driver hits a driver who had a beer at dinner, it is recorded as an “alcohol-related” accident. In fact, as noted by Radley Balko, a Cato Institute analyst, when the Los Angeles Times examined accident data in 2002, it found that only...
Ride-sharing sites like Ridester have tried to alleviate safety concerns by requiring users to register and instituting a feedback system in which passengers can rate the quality of their driver. The site also offers an escrow account that holds a passenger's carpooling fee until the transaction is completed. It's no guarantee, admits Jake Boshernitzan, CEO of Ridester. "We are not able to ensure the safety of our riders, just like an online-dating site can't guarantee the safety of someone you meet," he says...
...FREED. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, Pakistani-born British Muslim sentenced to be hanged for the 1988 killing of taxi driver Jamshed Khan; after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf commuted his sentence; in Rawalpindi. Hussain, who said Khan had died after a gun went off during a struggle as the driver tried to sexually assault him, became a cause célèbre among Britain's Pakistani community and earned an appeal for clemency from Prince Charles during a visit to Pakistan last month. "At last," said Hussain's brother Amjad upon his release, "these 18 years of nightmare appear...