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...Meet Carlos Hernandez, a Cambridge cab driver for the Yellow Cab Company. He has curly black hair, dark skin and a slightly rotund physique. He is soft-spoken yet intelligent, and eases into casual conversation with the fluidity of a professional. "I give rides to the whole spectrum of society, from the lowest to the highest," he says with a charming Spanish accent. "I pick up professors, I pick up students, I pick up drug dealers, I pick up pimps.... I'm very open-minded when I talk to people...
...After emigrating from El Salvador 20 years back, he found himself in need of work. Getting his taxi license, known in cab jargon as a "hacking license," was the obvious choice. "No matter how bad the economy is," he says, "you can always get a job as a cab driver." It is steady work, which he enjoys mostly because of the variety of people he meets...
...dot.gov You can get spies around town to report to you on your teen's driving habits, and take away the keys if you don't like what you hear. In virtually every state, parents must give written permission for their minor children to have learner's permits and driver's licenses; likewise, parents can withdraw that permission via the DMV, no questions asked...
Senator Eide hasn't gone that route yet, although Joanna did have a minor traffic accident earlier this month. (No one was hurt, but her father was driving right behind her.) So until she gets more driver's ed, Joanna is living under a new law: if she can't walk, she can catch a ride with her dad--or with her state senator...
...website at time.com/personal for more information about teen driving and graduated driver's licenses