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...true that you now drive an energy efficient car, after all those great sports cars you've had? -Debi Dodson, Chattanooga, TNI certainly do. I have a Toyota Hybrid, among other cars...
...Friends don't let friends drive drunk." Every child of the '80s remembers that ubiquitous anti-drunk-driving slogan, though it hasn't had much impact on celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, who was arrested Tuesday for the second time for driving under the influence. Now a new study shows that there's a much more direct and effective way to take drunk drivers off the road: state laws that revoke a driver's license on the spot, rather than waiting until after a possible criminal conviction...
...then there's a handful of states that are slow and don't pay attention to the data that's accumulating or have interest groups influencing them." Wagenaar insists that such license-revocation laws are a step in the right direction, though critics argue that people will continue to drive, even without a license. Case in point: Lindsay Lohan's friend Paris Hilton spent three weeks in jail last month for that offense...
...just crazy," Wagenaar said. "It's like saying here's a new method to reduce cancer by 10%, but just because some other cancer still causes a death, you say that the first isn't effective? That's just not the case. The fact that some drivers still drive under a suspended license is true, but it's also true that the death rate is down and the fatal crash rate is down...
...just that people who share similar lifestyles become friends, Fowler says. He and co-author Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School considered the possibility - and were surprised. For one thing, geographic distance between friends in the study seemed to have no impact: friends who lived a 5-hour drive apart and saw each other infrequently were just as influenced by each other's weight gains as those who lived close enough to share weekly take-out meals or pick-up basketball games. The best proof that friendship caused the weight gain, says Fowler, is that people were much more likely...