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...Highlight Reel: 1. Texting drivers could prompt a "crash epidemic": Truck drivers were 23.2 times more likely to get into a crash or near crash than drivers who weren't distracted. This correlates to the length of time a texting driver's eyes were off the road - almost five seconds, long enough to cover a football field at highway speeds. Given the increasing popularity of texting - it's grown tenfold in the last three years, by one count - it could swiftly become an enormous peril to road safety...
...persistent, subtle effects of implicit racial biases highlight the limits of the meritocracy. Gates’s arrest is a troubling reminder that overcoming the flaws of our society and minds requires more than talent and effort. Sometimes, try as we may, we can?...
...Highlight Reel: 1. On reaching 2009 budget agreements: "Some might think that state lawmakers are uttering a collective sigh of relief now that most have their new budgets in place, but that is not the case. Dread is more like it. If FY 2010 budgets follow a pattern similar to the ones in the past two years, new gaps will emerge after the fiscal year begins-in fact, some states already are reporting new shortfalls just weeks into the new fiscal year...
Scribd is also looking to expand into the classroom—Adler said that the company is currently developing an annotation feature, which will allow users to write notes and highlight text on the virtual books using electronic devices. Hopefully, he said, this will allow material on Scribd to compete with physical textbooks...
...tennis tournament and river run, respectively. The tennis matches featured over 50 players of various skill levels, sorted into four singles brackets (two men’s and two women’s) and a doubles draw. While the most talented players may have competed in singles, the highlight of the weekend played out in an epic doubles draw, where a certain strikingly handsome and talented Crimson sports editor and one of his proctees claimed the championship without dropping...