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...Barcelona" follows two cousins through their slow, boring, meaningless lives in Barcelona, Spain. The setting is post-Franco Spain where discos still reign and xenophobic feeling towards Americans is rampant. Taylor Nichols plays Ted Boynton, an American working for an international motor company who is content to stay at home and dance while reading his Bible. (By the way, this was the most interesting scene of the entire film). His placid life is interrupted when his cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman) arrives, purportedly the lead man for his naval ship which is supposed to arrive in Barcelona soon. Fred likes...
...than normal adults and children. In 1990 Dr. Alan Zametkin at the National Institute of Mental Health found that in PET scans, adults with ADD showed slightly lower rates of metabolism in areas of the brain's cortex known to be involved in the control of attention, impulses and motor activity...
Paiva ran over to a motor vehicle but didn't drive away. Instead, he hid in the back of his hatch-back automobile by climbing in and bulling the seats...
...afford to deter unlicensed drivers by threatening them with jail. "It would be prohibitively expensive to incarcerate people on that level, and there is a legitimate question of whether it is the appropriate punishment to fit the crime," says Dave DeYoung, a research analyst at the California department of motor vehicles. While 60% to 70% of suspended California motorists ignore the sanctions, many of them take pains to avoid being caught and fined again. "They tend to drive less often and more carefully," says DeYoung. "The letter of the law is being violated, but the goal of increasing traffic safety...
Lauda gives the FIA the benefit of the doubt. Drivers, he explains, "see accidents happen but nobody getting hurt, and they stop thinking about what is really at risk. If we start believing that motor racing is not dangerous, then we are all stupid. It's almost as though God has held his hand over Formula One. At Imola, he took it away. And we saw again the brutal reality of what Formula One racing is all about...