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...those crashes in cold, hard cash. Traffic injuries cost a whopping $518 billion a year. Poor countries generally spend more money responding to car accidents than they receive in development aid. The WHO offers a series of intuitive fixes for this growing problem: buckle down on speed limits, reduce drunk driving and tighten seat-belt laws. With pedestrians, cyclists and other "vulnerable road users" accounting for 46% of all traffic deaths, the report concludes that more research on road planning and design is needed as well. A scourge as lethal as many contagious diseases, car crashes are just as preventable...
...managing a pro-baseball team. In his latest book, however, his subject is far humbler, and has much to be humble about. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is a memoir of Lewis' own first steps (and missteps) as a father - one who shirks diaper-changing, passes out drunk as his wife prepares to deliver their second child and ponders whether most of his fellow dads are actually faking it most of the time. He talked to TIME about Father's Day, helicopter parenting and learning to love his kids. (Read TIME's cover story on the changing roles...
...nearly 2 p.m. to officially call off golf for the day, even though there was a better chance of Tiger Woods signing autographs than the weather clearing up. "Make us stand out here all day in the [expletive] rain, but sure, we can go buy something," he shouted. That drunk guy might have been the loudest complainer. But at this year's U.S. Open, he surely won't be the last...
...home to less than half of the world's vehicles, low- and middle-income countries account for more than 90% of traffic fatalities. But the economic findings are more surprising - and they're worth paying attention to. The WHO offers some intuitive fixes: buckle down on speed limits, reduce drunk driving and tighten seat-belt laws. Others are less obvious - particularly the recommendations that tackle car safety by focusing on pedestrians and "vulnerable road users." More analyses of land use and road design are needed. Otherwise, walking remains unsafe at any speed...
...When Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone founded Twitter in 2006, they were probably worried about things like making money and protecting people's privacy and drunk college kids breaking up with one another in 140 characters or less. What they weren't worried about was being suppressed by the Iranian government. But in the networked, surreally flattened world of social media, those things aren't as far apart as they used to be - and what began as a toy for online flirtation is suddenly being put to much more serious uses. After the election in Iran, cries...