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...test. Adults must have twice that score to qualify as drunk, but, says a state spokesman, "the idea is that a juvenile is more impaired at .05 than an adult is at .10." In some states, police routinely set up "sobriety checkpoints," stopping cars to check for drunk drivers. Maryland has a program encouraging CB operators to call in reports on drunk drivers. Since July 1982, more than 20,000 such reports have yielded almost ( 3,000 drunk-driving arrests. Says Kent Milton of the California highway patrol: "The problem is still enormous. It's a gigantic ocean with...
...carry copies of their entire medical histories--X rays, ECGs, vaccination records and all--in their hip pockets. Up to 800 pages of such information, including a digitized personal photograph and explanation of insurance coverage, will fit on a credit card-size "LifeCard." Last week Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland announced plans to introduce the laser-encoded card in Columbia and, if all goes well, distribute it throughout the state by 1986. Ultimately they hope to market the LifeCard to insurers around the country. Says Blue Cross Executive Thomas Sherlock: "This card could reduce the number of X rays...
...values of the workplace. Explains Kitty La Perriere of New York, president of the American Family Therapy Association: "What matters is production, output, competition, excellence." Since men are still the principal wage earners in most families, the women usually take second billing. Arnold Medvene, a University of Maryland psychologist, recalls a woman whose writing career was becoming increasingly successful. But her husband, a high-ranking civilian employee of the Navy, put little value on her work. Their children and the household tasks remained her burden. Says Medvene: "She got the message. She felt belittled and demeaned." Only after the couple...
...Baltimore on the U.S. barge Lash Atlantico on its way to Teledyne Continental Motors in Muskegon, Mich., for repairs and rebuilding. The driver parked the T-54 for more than a week while he went off in search of a special permit to transport the overweight load on Maryland's roads. In the end, police returned the guns, and the tank continued its decades-long voyage from Moscow to Muskegon...
Somewhat surprisingly, that idea has stirred little protest in Washington. Tennessee Senator Jim Sasser calls the maneuvers "scary," and his fellow Democrat, Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, terms them "inconsistent" with President Reagan's efforts to promote peace negotiations between the Sandinistas and the contras. For the most part, however, even persistent critics of Reagan's Central American policy are undisturbed. Says Larry Birns, the avowedly liberal director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "This is gunboat diplomacy upgraded, but a bit of pressure doesn't hurt...