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...found that men were more than twice as likely to die than women. Of the 1,442 fatalities, 70% were men, according to research by Thomas Songer at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. Most of the deaths happened outside the home during flash floods or lightning strikes. That is partly because men are more likely to be outside for their jobs. But men are also more likely to take risks of all kinds - which can be a fatally bad idea in ugly weather...
...emphasis, of course, being on well-run. Unfortunately, many luxury brand sites are too glitzy for their own good. Off-key efforts to replicate an in-store experience are usually overly reliant on Flash technology and needlessly saturated with music and videos. The result is sites that are slow, clunky, difficult to navigate - and potentially image-tarnishing. "Most online affluent shoppers don't want all that," Bracewell-Lewis says. Usually they're looking for a specific item or manufacturer and don't want to dig through layers of Flash images...
...whispers, "God is great!" She doesn't respond or look back. As the car drives away, the video, shot through the rear window, shows her approaching the checkpoint. She is quickly obscured from view by the dust trail behind the car. Nearly a minute later there's a flash, a muffled boom and a column of black smoke. "God is great!" says the cameraman. "The stupid woman...
...circled for a while--until another agent radioed for help in finding a nefarious red car in the vicinity of a nearby crossroads. Dart banked toward the dusty village to perform a census of red vehicles. As the pilot headed back toward the thicket, his sharp eye spotted a flash of silver under some trees in a dry wash. Turning for a closer look, he found a clean, late-model sedan, slightly askew, apparently left in haste. Barely 10 a.m., yet it seemed the entire sector--a classic Western landscape of rimrock, saguaro and sage--was already swimming with fishy...
Cahen says an industry group called the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has worked to promote industry-wide adherence to standards preventing youth access to porn. Problems may still arise, says Holden. "If the Janet Jackson episode led to a fine for a quick breast flash," he says, "can you imagine what could happen to an American carrier if a child gets hold of some of the hard-core materials that are easily available? The FCC will have a field...