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...them are driving to their deaths. While fatalities for most drivers have dropped in the past two decades, traffic deaths of newly licensed 16-year-olds surged about 50% between 1975 and 1996. Even more troubling than the rising body count are the reasons behind it. Alcohol, the main culprit in teen accidents in the '80s, is now much less of a problem, thanks to a major educational blitz. Instead, safety specialists blame the sort of naive errors that killed Wells and her friends. Citing cutbacks in driver education by schools, experts contend that young motorists simply have inadequate skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Young To Drive? | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Then, students' main problems were avoiding thedraft, birth control, abortion, relationshipissues, civil rights and women's rights...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Visit to Room 13: A Friendly Late Night Ear | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...Young Masters;" Boston Ballet's first performance of the season comprising the works of three young, innovative choreographers. This is ballet turned inside out, rooted in classical technique but branching into a startling diversity. Influenced by sources as disparate as Beethoven and the Austrailian Bush, the the main link between the three pieces was their inventiveness...

Author: By Melissa Gniadek, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lyle Lovett at the Boston Ballet | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...Livingston, is fed-up with the endless paper shuffling at corporate nightmare Initech, his unctuously sinister boss Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) and, in short, his life in general. Gibbons' arguments against the system are blandly familiar and add nothing new to the common polemics against human automatism. But Gibbons' main function is to give the similarly disillusioned audience an easily identifiable character. And the audience at this particular viewing (mostly 20-somethings) were consistently muttering, "Oh yeah, I hate that!", and I could almost feel them nudging their neighbors and rolling their eyes. The problem with Office Space is that...

Author: By Paul Cantagallo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OFFICE SPACE cramped | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...vast majority of students are not severely affected by snowy conditions. The main impact is on the Faculty and nonresident students," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "Accommodations for necessary absences should be sought in the same way they would be for unexpected individual emergencies...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Snow Unlikely to Close Down College | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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