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...first thing Peter Haugen noticed was that the dents in his mom's car were multiplying. Then the Osterville, Mass., software engineer learned that his mother, 85, had confused the brake and the gas pedal and ended up, unhurt, atop a stone wall. He pleaded with her to stop driving. He spoke to her doctor. He even persuaded her to see a geropsychologist...
...mammogram. "Our goal," he says, "is to get people to realize that driving disability is like other diseases. If you pick it up early, you can make drivers safer longer and prevent terrible accidents." And when the disease becomes too advanced, older drivers need to accept, like Peter Haugen's mom, that the best remedy is to get out from behind the wheel...
...Rather, on assignment in Beirut for 60 Minutes, made an unexpected stop last week at Peter Jennings' old house. "I just drove by one of the places Peter used to live here," Rather told Time.com by phone from Beirut. "And thought I'd stop alongside for a minute." Rather indulged himself in a spell of nostalgia, both for Jennings, his longtime friend and competitor who lay dying of lung cancer half a world away in New York City, and for Beirut's bad old days of warlords and war correspondents, when the two men first got to know each other...
...being too young and inexperienced. But rather than retreating to a well-paid anchor job in some local market, says Rather, Jennings exiled himself to the Middle East to learn the news craft from the ground up. "Beirut was a hellhole in the 1970's," says Rather, "[but] Peter knew that if he was going to get the respect and credit of his peers, he had to come to a place like this and earn...
...clear that he had long since won that respect. He worked his way from conflict to conflict, country to country, rising to Chief Foreign Correspondent at ABC before eventually retaking the job of fulltime anchor of World News Tonight in 1983. Along with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Peter Jennings formed the steady triumvirate of anchors that would preside over the American evening news for the next two decades. The three rivals had an unusually warm relationship, and when Rather retired as anchor this March, it was Jennings who insisted on a small farewell dinner, which was eventually held...