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...urge her to limit her exposure--avoiding highways or rush-hour driving, for example. Later on, some white lies may work, like taking the battery out of the car and pretending that there's no money to fix it. In some states a physician and child can notify the motor-vehicle department, which will call the parent in for a driving test. Only as a last resort should the family wrest the keys away from a parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elder Care: Ticklish Times | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...diminutive 1.2 meters tall, it looks like a child wearing a spacesuit and walks with a deceptively natural gait that belies the whir of gears and motors emanating from its hard plastic body. Reacting to a person entering the lobby of Honda Motor Co.'s Wako Research Center just outside of Tokyo, the robot advances toward the reception desk, stops, bows and says in a prepubescent boy's voice: "Welcome to the Honda R. and D. center. My name is ASIMO." When the visitor offers to shake hands, ASIMO extends a mechanical hand in response. Then, on cue from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Men | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...Behind the hard data, though, lies a more stirring story about reconciliation on both sides of the fence. Pete Peterson, a pow for six years in Hanoi, returned to the country as U.S. ambassador in 1997 and quickly ingratiated himself with its people by riding around town on his motor scooter and marrying a Vietnamese woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to Sunny Vietnam | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...Behind the hard data, though, lies a more stirring story about reconciliation on both sides of the fence. Pete Peterson, a POW for six years in Hanoi, returned to the country as U.S. ambassador in 1997 and quickly ingratiated himself with its people by riding around town on his motor scooter and marrying a Vietnamese woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to Sunny Vietnam | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...order to qualify for a residential parking permit, a car must be registered with the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and its owner must be able to prove residency by presenting a current gas, electric, telephone or cable bill...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Time & Again | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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