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After the Santa Monica accident, legislators, state departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) and others began putting a premium on older-driver safety. The push is occurring on several fronts: research to identify which drivers need testing, development of more accurate assessment tools, a greater focus on driver remediation and the creation of specialized licensing for the elderly. In addition, states and social-services agencies are starting or bolstering programs to support older people who have stopped driving, offering counseling and alternate transportation options. Backing up all these efforts, officials are launching public education campaigns to encourage testing of older drivers...
...analysis of costs at summer schools around the country conducted by The Crimson revealed that while Harvard Summer School’s 5,000 students may not pay a premium for their classes, about half of them fork over sums of money for room and board significantly larger than those charged by other summer schools—and by Harvard College for the use of those same rooms and dining halls during the academic year...
...catch is that I printed images on both the HP Advanced Photo Paper and the HP Premium Plus Glossy Photo Paper. While the Premium Plus images came out best in the image-quality testing, they were not smudge resistant like those printed on Advanced paper. But the Advanced paper has other benefits too: when you use it, you cut printing time down dramatically. A 4x6 on Premium Plus paper takes about a minute and a half to print, while prints made on Advanced paper take, according to my experience, just 18 to 20 seconds. In the business, we call that...
...1990s the number of Indians in the U.S. more than doubled--making them the fastest-growing Asian minority. There are some 2.5 million desis in the U.S., and the vast majority are Indian. That may not seem terribly significant compared with, say, 40 million Hispanics, but consider how premium a customer a South Asian is: Indians alone commanded $76 billion worth of disposable personal income last year, according to market-research firm Cultural Access Group, using figures from the University of Georgia's Selig Center for Economic Growth; median household income is nearly $64,000--50% higher than the national...
...which free traders respond: Don't bother. If a Chinese company wants to pay a hefty premium to (mostly) U.S. shareholders, and guarantee the bulk of Unocal'S jobs to boot, why should those shareholders be prevented from selling? After all, Japan 15 years ago wasn't exactly an open economy when its flagship companies began buying everything from Rockefeller Center to Hollywood movie studios. The Japanese, it turned out, got taken like tourists. --Reported by Eric Roston/Washington