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...years, the number of 70-plus drivers will have ballooned to 30 million, and highway-safety experts warn that the number of people killed in crashes involving elderly motorists is likely to surpass the drunk-driving death toll. While it is true that drivers 60 and older have a lower accident rate than younger ones, and that some seniors drive safely into their 90s, others are impaired by such ailments as poor vision, slow reflexes, partial paralysis and dementia. Attempts to identify unfit drivers, moreover, have been haphazard. Some states require frequent vision tests for elderly drivers. Others mandate nothing...
...vaunted U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities" list, Stanford has dropped two places to No. 6. And Johns Hopkins, relegated in 1998 to shameful second-10 status, is back on its feet at No. 7 in a tie with Duke and UPenn, both of whom are a rung lower than last year. But don?t freak out, aspiring teens and parents, the world of top-flight universities isn?t undergoing some seismic shuffle. The rankers at U.S. News are just having fun tweaking their criteria. "In general, the changes in the way we rank schools boosted the rankings...
...reactions are sacred or scared. Justin Renfroe, 27, an Atlanta exterminator, shrugs and says, "I guess I didn't get it." He will advise friends to "wait for the video." After a midnight show at the Angelika, the indie showplace in lower Manhattan where Blair Witch had its theatrical premiere on July 14, a vocal minority is shouting, like a high school football cheer, a chorus of "Bulllllsh__!" But a few persist in believing, even after the final cast and credit roll, that this clever fiction is for real--a documentary that ends in death. "You mean...
Poverty-row chillers were a staple in the 1950s, with a string of lower-than-lowbrow horror movies by such directors as Roger Corman (Not of This Earth) and William Castle (The Tingler), films that were enjoyable in direct proportion to our sense that they were made without adult supervision. The tradition was carried on by filmmakers like David Cronenberg; though later celebrated for the high-toned horror of The Fly and Dead Ringers, he never matched the shocks of his early, amateurish offerings such as Rabid and They Came from Within. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe...
...Cavellini said that by evicting lower-income clients like the Desirs, who receive government subsidies for their rent, the owner can remodel the apartments and rent them out at higher prices...