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...challenge for automakers is to keep real consumers in mind. "People who design these things have to realize that the normal passenger doesn't have a degree in computer science," says Kim Vicente, director of the University of Toronto's Cognitive Engineering Laboratory. "Most of us don't care about computers. We just want to drive." And have a little fun while we're at it. --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...surprisingly, the fitness boom among older adults has led to a spike in sports injuries. Exercise newbies may suffer from flare-ups of old injuries or normal age-related wear and tear of tendons and joints. Overenthusiasm is another problem. "They make the mistake of upping the ante too far and too fast, doubling the time or the mileage," says Dr. Doug McKeag, director of sports medicine at Indiana University. A few minutes of warm-up and cool down, instruction from a certified trainer and appropriate safety gear can help...
...Louis Riel" match its concept of history as viewed through a personal lens. He strives for historical accuracy in every way except the characters, who are deliberately cartoonish - sometimes absurdly so. Canada's Prime Minister, Sir. John McDonald has a comically gigantic gibbous nose. Riel himself starts out rather normal in scale but after his enlightenment becomes huge, like the Hulk in a wool suit. In the final issue, Brown cites Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" as a major influence, and the comparison is dead on. From the thin, uniformly weighted pen lines right down to the circles...
...that somewhat arbitrary cutoff. This growing awareness prompted the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) last week to revise its blood-pressure guidelines so that 45 million Americans whose blood pressure is between 120/80 and 139/89--a level that was once considered to be on the high side of normal--will now be told that they have prehypertension...
These days Burroughs is finally getting a taste of--and for--a more normal life. "This is something I've never done," he says excitedly. "I'm like a tourist in daily life, and it's riveting!" With Dry in stores and Scissors en route to the big screen, Burroughs is finishing up his next book (working title: Magical Thinking). With all this normality, is he running out of material? "Catastrophes seem to find me," he says. "I grew up in a little town in nowhere, Massachusetts, and one day these men rolled up in a black van and started...