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They took an eight-hour trip to Canton, caught the game, and drove back the same night in wet snow and on winding roads...
Perhaps the best way to reconcile safety and mobility is to teach elderly motorists to compensate for the physical liabilities that often come with age. Since 1979, more than a million senior drivers have completed the American Association of Retired Persons's "55 Alive/Mature Driving" program, an eight-hour driver-education course taught in 17,000 classrooms across the U.S. for a nominal fee. Says Michael Seaton, creator of the A.A.R.P. program: "Older drivers want to be safe on the road. Most have never had a high school driver's-education class, and they enjoy the course." As the A.A.R.P...
...week's Interview section. Tracking down the P.L.O. leader took months of careful plotting. Gart finally caught up with Arafat at his heavily guarded compound four miles from the center of Baghdad. While he had interviewed Arafat on nine previous occasions, none had prepared Gart for the three-day, eight-hour talkathon that followed. Nor was he ready for the late-night meal at Arafat's table that featured five different preparations of lamb or the motorcade that careered through Baghdad at 80 m.p.h. Says Gart: "That was about as close to the Indy 500 as anything I've been...
...flextime, which permits employees to adjust their working hours to meet personal needs. In some 60% of U.S. workplaces, employees are allowed some leeway in when they work. Typically, a flextime employee comes to the office earlier or later than the standard time and then works a full eight-hour day. In Oak Brook, Ill., computer workers at the Official Airline Guides publishing firm can cluster their hours, and work from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. three days a week. Other companies adjust hours on a case-by-case basis. At Stride Rite, comptroller Nancy Cirigliano varied her schedule...
...head to America as it is for them to vacation much closer to home. Visiting the sun-splashed beaches of Okinawa costs a Tokyo couple about as much as a hop to Hawaii. For $342, a Parisian can choose either a 1 1/2-hour flight to Corsica or an eight-hour trip to New York on planes chartered by the French tour operator Nouvelles Frontieres. And now that a pound buys $1.87 (up from $1.04 in 1985), Britons are taking advantage of package deals such as a Virgin Atlantic Airways offer that takes them to New York on a Thursday, deposits...