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...recommended that kids under age 2 be restrained in their own seats while in the air. So far, the Federal Aviation Administration has declined to make that mandatory, citing a 1995 study that concluded the added cost of buying another ticket might force more families to drive--and risk roadway accidents. Still, the agency advises that children weighing less than 40 lbs. fly in a safety or car seat buckled into their own seat on the plane. If you decide to get your toddler a seat, ask the airline whether it gives discounts on tickets for children under 2; many...
...Nikorn isn't expecting his campaign to win easy victories. The causes of accidents are so varied?poor roadway design, unsafe vehicles, and human error among them. There are no quick-fix solutions. Yordphol Tanaboriboon, a transportation-engineering professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, says one of the few generalizations that can be made is that the high proportion of motorcycles on Thailand's roads (of the country's 26 million registered vehicles, 12 million are two-wheelers; according to Nikorn, there are another 6 million unregistered motorcycles) is linked to a higher death rate. As many...
...Kentucky logs the information it receives in a database and contacts law enforcement when necessary. It usually isn't. Of the 200 or so calls that come in each month, only about 10 have anything to do with suspected terrorism. Most callers report abandoned vehicles, stranded motorists or roadway hazards. Highway Watch members are instructed to look for certain kinds of behavior--not certain kinds of people. "Profiling is bad. Bad, bad, bad," Beatty said...
Whereas public transportation serves to reduce traffic, pollution and particularly roadway maintenance costs, the Big Dig has raised costs for the MBTA by forcing the authority to rebuild and relocate stations and track lines that were intruding on highway construction. In addition, the 1991 Big Dig contract with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection requires that the MBTA complete a series of projects to provide mitigation for the new Central Artery’s environmental impact. In an independent report released in 2002, the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research estimated that these mitigation efforts alone would cost the MBTA...
...staunch facade. His orders largely unheeded, his soldiers declining to fight, Saddam went out for a look at his falling capital, a secretary who accompanied him recalls. Saddam stood on Zaitun Street, the boulevard decorated with monumental statues of two muscular forearms holding swords that cross above the roadway. As he turned to leave, he paused. Using an Arabic expression of utter disillusionment, he muttered, "Even my clothes have betrayed...