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...drive and of course it will have very good fuel efficiency." Will that be enough to convince India's aspiring classes? Tata at the outset expects to sell 20,000 of its cheap cars a month in India, partly because consumers will see them as safer than motorbikes on India's chaotic roads. Ved Pal, 38, who works at a New Delhi finance company and who currently rides a bike, says he is tempted. "I have five people in my family," he says. "Only two people can sit on a bike. [A car] will be much better. On Sunday when...
...safer to have a broad definition so that no truly ill person slips through? Yes and no. Untreated mental illness can be serious, but misdiagnosis can also be harmful: a healthy individual might take unneeded drugs that have side effects, for instance. Also, a psychiatric diagnosis can be used against you in a divorce proceeding or disqualify you from, say, a cancer-drug trial...
Since then, the massive "surge" of U.S. and Iraqi troops in and around Baghdad has made the Iraqi capital safer than before from such bombings - but terrorist groups have stepped up attacks elsewhere. There have been a number of attacks in northern Iraq, which had enjoyed a long spell of peace before the start of the "surge...
...While college administrators hope that these upgrades in mental health policy will promote a safer environment, others argue that more still needs to be done to ensure that schools are correctly and consistently interpreting privacy laws in an appropriate fashion. "The bottom line is that administrators and clinicians have much more discretion than they may believe with regard to sharing information," says Dr. Paul Appelbaum, director of the Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Although schools have read and re-read FERPA ad nauseam this summer, Appelbaum says he wants clear-cut guidelines from...
Many residents seemed to view staying in the house safer than evacuating. About 75 percent of those who would not leave said they believed they’d be safe in their home, while 56 percent worried about crowded roads and over a third felt that evacuating would be dangerous. Blendon said that evacuation is even more critical for residents of mobile homes, despite the fact that one survey question revealed that one in four people living in mobile homes within 20 miles of the ocean said they would refuse to leave...