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...must either bunk up at cracker-box motels or slump over the wheel after the maximum ten-hour stretch allowed by federal regulation. Spelled by co-drivers, truckers sometimes sleep in their living quarters or just stand, walk around and ease white-line tension. "The better the equipment, the safer the ride," says Tom Phillips, 24, who just purchased a $75,000 International Harvester cab with a 42-in. sleeper compartment. "A tired driver is a bad driver...
Polo is who known for its violence: specially-trained horses dash into one another and often fall; mallets swung with impunity. Recent regulations have made the polo post, once a source of injury, more flexible and safer...
...harassment by panhandlers. "A lot of us feel uncomfortable and threatened in those situations, and it's not just imagination," DuBow says. The sheer population mass of the largest cities, coupled with sensational news coverage of brutal crimes, contributes to the climate of fear. People in Portland feel safer than do inhabitants of Chicago, even though crime rates are higher in the . smaller city. Most Americans do not become crime victims, but most know someone who has. Many become quite rational prisoners of their fears, living behind triple locks and avoiding ominous places...
Harvard Square is safer than it has been in recent years, the department's crime watchers said, because of extra police assigned to the area due to recent Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority construction...
Harvard "would not mind a certain amount of administrative burden that would make Harvard a safer, healthier place," and will support the bill if amended, Doherty said...