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After Styperek lost his match at No. 5 singles and Green won his in straight sets at No. 3 singles, Harvard appeared to be in the driver's seat...
...string of digits and see how difficult it is. Breaking unwieldy pieces of information into smaller pieces makes them easier to remember. The process is called "chunking," and that's why we can remember Social Security and telephone numbers. Large unbroken sets of numbers, such as driver's licenses, can be artificially divided into chunks for easier recall. "Clustering" is another effective technique. Seven, according to experts, is the magic number for short-term, or working, memory. That's roughly how many things we can consciously hold in the mind at one time. But we can trick it into holding...
Last summer Joanna Eide, who lives in a town just south of Seattle, did what many Americans do the instant they turn 16: she got a driver's license. But if a bill before its legislature passes as expected, Washington will soon join the growing number of states that require "graduated licenses" for drivers who are not yet 18. Under the proposed law, Washington teens could get a learner's permit at 15 and could earn an intermediate driver's license at 16--both with lots of strings at- tached. But in the meantime, at the cozy, split-level home...
Senator Eide got interested in graduated driver's licenses last year, when she noticed an outbreak of traffic citations and accidents among Joanna's friends who were new drivers. Even Joanna, an honor student and a responsible kid, was ticketed within two weeks of getting her license. Joanna and her crowd are guilty of nothing more than youth and inexperience--but that can be a dangerous combination behind the wheel. Eide, 45, worked at a clerical job in a hospital emergency room in the 1970s and witnessed a steady stream of car-crash victims. Citing dramatic reductions in teen auto...
...some 6,000 teens will be killed in crashes of cars driven by teens; an additional 600,000 teens will be injured. Drunk driving contributes to fewer teen accidents these days, thanks to zero-tolerance laws and higher alcohol-purchase ages. By addressing the far more common culprit of driver error, graduated-licensing programs should further reduce the teen-driving toll...