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...database—amassed from the Selective Service and Motor Vehicle Associations, as well as private vendors—was designed in order to centralize information to be used for military recruiting, which has intensified recently. Personal files may include an individual’s Social Security number, ethnicity, grade point average, and e-mail address. So far, the database has processed information for a total of 30 million people, of which 12 million are presently considered viable recruitment targets...
...HUPD dispatched an officer to a Business School parking lot after a parking gate arm was damaged when it came down prematurely on a motor vehicle. The vehicle was also damaged...
...Motor City, where the car is king, has steered away from any large-scale mass transit since the Michigan legislature unsuccessfully proposed a subway in 1905. But in 1982, after Congress overrode Reagan Administration objections, both Detroit and Miami were given a green light to begin work on People Movers. The Detroit project, 80% federally funded, is one of the first U.S. tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although...
...pianist. "A conductor," Sonia replied. "It's easier." She was naturally talented, adept at the piano, a good writer, accomplished at painting and photography. But she was emotionally unstable, and Toscanini's death in January 1957 grieved her deeply. Five months later, she was severely injured in a motor-scooter accident in Italy. In 1974 she was in another motor-vehicle accident, this one in Switzerland, and she died shortly thereafter...
...gaping hole is created. But the first symptoms, such as irritability and depression, are often subtle. "We just thought it was an extreme mid-life crisis," says Wexler, recalling the onset of her mother's illness. "We blamed it all on Betty Friedan." Next come the neurological and motor effects that are often mistaken for drunkenness: slowed thought processes, slurred speech, impaired memory and problem-solving abilities. In the later stages of the disease, the patient is seized by uncontrollable jerking movements...