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...crosswalk? Will you have a violent reaction to bad food? And what about the risks you carry with you all your life? The father and grandfather who died of coronaries in their 50s probably passed the same cardiac weakness on to you. The tendency to take chances on the highway that has twice landed you in traffic court could just as easily land you in the morgue...
...commercial airline crashes in a year, compared with 44,000 killed in motor-vehicle wrecks. The most white-knuckle time of all was post--Sept. 11, when even confident flyers took to the roads. Not surprisingly, from October through December 2001 there were 1,000 more highway fatalities than in the same period the year before, in part because there were simply more cars around. "It was called the '9/11 effect.' It produced a third again as many fatalities as the terrorist attacks," says David Ropeik, an independent risk consultant and a former annual instructor at the Harvard School...
...money for the student grants comes from the Cambridge Collaborative, a $40,000 grant from the Massachusetts Governor’s Highway Safety Office that supports various Harvard, MIT, and city initiatives. Harvard will be the first to dip into these funds, Travia said...
Last Friday, the Massachusetts Governor’s Highway Safety Bureau gave $40,000 to be split among Harvard University, MIT, and the Cambridge License Commission to help reduce high-risk and underage drinking, according to Director of the Office of Alcohol & Other Drug Services Ryan Travia...
...would leave the campus at 4 in the morning and stop at the Dunkin' Donuts in Central Square and we would drive out to some highway in Boston,” Breaux recounts. “We would sit on the highway counting cars and then we would race back at 9:30 to make a 10 o’clock class...