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...Instead, the approach to preventing accidents due to cellphone use should borrow from strategies used to combat drunk driving. Years of propaganda from government agencies and well-meaning non-profits like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have helped dramatically change cultural attitudes about drinking and driving. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey found that only 2.2 percent of nighttime weekend drivers were drunk in 2007, down from 7.5 percent in the 1970s...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Bring Texting to a Standstill | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...initially hired four non-UC student staffers, who received a small stipend for their work. By mid-July, none of the four student staffers remained working full-time for the project, according to Joshua J. Nuni ’10 in an e-mail over the UC-General list on July 15. The campaign efforts were sustained through volunteer work for the rest of the summer...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Brittany M Llewellyn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Capital Campaign Falls Flat, Cuts UC Ties | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

FlyBy did a lazy-Sunday lookover, and it appeared that about 30-40 percent of the chairs were full, and almost entirely by non-Harvard students. (We could tell because they were...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Chairs in the Hood | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...instincts above all the embassy pundits put together. He was worried by reports that President Karzai's supporters committed widescale fraud in the Aug. 20 elections, and this, the shop-keeper says, could re-open ancient ethnic grudges between the Pashtuns, most of whom back Karzai, and the non-Pashtuns who are rallying around his main challenger, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. (Read about the German contingent in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Return Visit to Kabul: Is Time Running Out? | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...that she has some practice - and better outfits - under her belt, Letizia's approval ratings have climbed (the fact that she has fulfilled her one non-negotiable duty as consort by producing two heirs, the equally well-dressed Leonor, nearly 4 years old, and Sofia, 2, didn't hurt either). In these vicissitudes, of course, Letizia bears a certain resemblance to another famed royal. But don't be looking for her to be taking on the mantle of Diana of Wales anytime soon, warns Montes-Fernandez. "For one thing, Letizia tends to focus on cultural issues rather than humanitarian ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letizia of Spain: How to Look Like a Princess | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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