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Think you're safer because you talk on a hands-free cell phone while driving? Think again. Using either type of phone while trying to drive a car is roughly equivalent to driving with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08%, which is high enough to get you arrested in any of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for driving under the influence. Folks who use hands-free cell phones in simulation trials also exhibited slower reaction times and took longer to hit the brakes than drivers who weren't otherwise distracted. Data from real-life driving tests show...
...spite of the Islamists' disreputable allies, many Somalis cannot remember a time when they felt safer. For Americans, the single, searing image of Somalia was formed in October 1993, after two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters--part of a U.S. mission to provide humanitarian relief and restore order--were felled by militias loyal to warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Eighteen U.S. special forces were killed, and the world community's involvement in Somalia effectively ended. What followed was a decade and a half of intermittent war that reduced Mogadishu to rubble. Along the "green line," the architectural gem of the former Italian...
...only did he have a plan to reduce these pressures, Beazley said, but when formulating policies, his Cabinet would consider their likely impact on families in terms of time as well as money. Opponents may call it a gimmick. But Labor says its evolving brand promises a fairer, safer, more caring future. Beazley may share Howard's nostalgia, but he'd like to convince Australians it's time to try the Labor version...
...about to put the moves on girls. And remarkably, they usually only show up because the girl called them. Those guys think that just because they have a badge and a gun, they can cockblock whenever they want. But if they’re really interested in making campus safer, they should give us pickup lines and dental dams instead of arrest warrants. Bottom line is that this school is full of hot girls, especially after ten beers, and all we’re asking for is a chance, a chance to show them the classy guys that...
Some undergrads said that the survey results didn’t accord with their own perceptions. “I’m from New York City, presumably a very dangerous place, but I actually feel safer there than I do in Cambridge,” said Victoria J. Crutchfield...