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Most pedestrian accidents, according to Branyan, happen because people jaywalk or drivers ignore existing traffic laws - which require, for example, yielding to pedestrians in the crosswalk, heeding the speed limit and stopping at red lights. A pedestrian dies every 110 minutes in the United States, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and there has been an increase in the last few years in pedestrian deaths in Washington and other urban areas across the country, prompting governments in the D.C. metro area to launch a new advertising campaign aimed at increasing pedestrian safety. It is both "edgy and blunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texting and Walking: Dangerous Mix | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

Reagan somberly detailed the overwhelming nature of these threats as he sees them. Using red and blue charts marked with the Soviet sickle and the American flag (which inexplicably contained 56 stars), he compared the production of armaments since 1974: 3,050 tactical warplanes for the U.S. vs. 6,100 for the Soviets, 27 U.S. attack submarines vs. 61 Soviet ones, 11,200 U.S. tanks and armored fighting vehicles vs. 54,000 for the U.S.S.R. He also displayed a graph of the unilateral increase in Soviet intermediate-range missiles aimed at Europe, noting the pledges made by Kremlin leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Reagan for the Defense | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s hockey team (16-12-4) has already narrowly topped Cornell twice this season, but the Crimson is disregarding the past tonight, counting not on its past success against the Big Red, but instead on the brilliant play of those who have carried the team thus far this year. With a trip to the Bank of America ECAC Hockey Championship on the line tonight in Albany, N.Y., Harvard’s challenge is simple: outscore the No. 20 Big Red (18-13-3) or go home. For Crimson hockey, already predisposed to view competition against...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rivalry Will Renew Tonight | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

During the bike-riding craze of the 1970s, businessman Richard Burke, an avid runner, sensed a market for a high-quality, American-made bike to compete with then dominant Japanese imports. In 1976 in a red barn in Waterloo, Wis., Burke started Trek with five employees. Trek, the bike on which Lance Armstrong rode to his Tour de France victories, is now the country's largest bikemaker. Burke was 73 and died of complications following heart surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...lineup [shook] out it seemed that we took ourselves out of a lot of rallies,” senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich says.The dearth of run production was further highlighted when a power-laden Brown team edged Harvard for first place in the Red Rolfe Division, keeping the Crimson out of the Ivy League Championship Series for just the second time since 2002.For Harvard to reverse its fortunes this season, the middle of its lineup will have to become a force once again. With Wilson playing in the minor leagues and questions surrounding a talented but injury-plagued freshman...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding The Power Within | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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