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...Robert Rawley, head of the medical advisory board for the Maryland department of motor vehicles, is studying 2,500 drivers at five-year intervals to see how age affects skills. He says that as vision starts to diminish, drivers are blinded by the halo effect of lights at night and are less able to judge the speed of oncoming cars. As physical changes such as arthritis set in, some older drivers find it more difficult to turn their head to check their blind spot. "With functional testing, we can identify where drivers are having problems...
...Rawley, of the Maryland DMV, says his office gives in-depth, two-hour examinations to more than 2,000 older drivers a year for license renewal, but he stresses that age alone doesn't indicate driving problems. "Even people who seem quite frail and have some physical problems might be just fine on the road," he says. "I recently examined a 100-year-old woman who had excellent reflexes and abilities, and I didn't hesitate to renew her license. So age isn't the issue. Impairment is. With some testing, training and adaptations to cars and roads...
...sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over her refusal to use pesticides on her apple orchards, thereby inundating, he is convinced, his land with bugs...
...sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over her refusal to use pesticides on her apple orchards, thereby inundating, he is convinced, his land with bugs...
...seize these opportunities, DreamWorks and its competitors will need both the vision thing and the chutzpah thing. "Because the costs of manufacture and marketing continue to rise," says Peter Rawley, executive vice president of the International Creative Management agency, "the audience has to be expanded very rapidly. So we have to squeeze the Chinese, get them to sign on. Add India, Southeast Asia, Latin America. And if you are going to spend the money to develop those markets, you'd better go with a full caravan. You can't be like Marco Polo and say, 'Oh, you like silk...