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...October, 5,035 fines were issued, compared to 3,818 for all of last year. In Japan, an $84 fine for car accidents caused by mobile phones has netted only 120 offenders a year. So police are reportedly planning stricter laws for 2004, to punish offenders on sight. In July, Italy increased fines to $83 and added a five-point deduction from an offender's license. In 2002-03 there were 330,384 fines; in the first month under the new law, just 106 tickets were issued. In June, Vietnam made handheld phoning a fineable offense ($3.30) for drivers. Since...
Jill Asay fell in love with Ben Colgan on their first date in New York City when, in a burst of exuberance, he suddenly started running down First Avenue, hurdling parking meters. Struck by the sight, other men on the street began imitating Ben. Though some were taller than his 5 ft. 7 in., none could clear the meters. "That was my moment," recalls Jill, 34. "Here's this guy, he's athletic, he's fun, but mostly he's a leader. He made other guys want to follow...
...when she drove her pickup truck into an auto-window-tinting shop owned by Kevin May in Lincoln, Neb., May, six years her senior, barely noticed her. Then an aide at a nearby nursing home and mired in a rocky, miserable relationship, Stacey weighed 180 lbs., deeply disliked the sight of her own face and didn't exactly radiate self-confidence. She didn't radiate much of anything, except perhaps a conviction that she looked 50 and would never be as happy or as attractive as Lisa, her bikini-contest-winning kid sister. The only detail May remembers about Stacey...
...fact for which he makes no apologies: "If you can't focus on what's beyond [New Hampshire and Iowa]," he says, "you're not going to beat George W. Bush." But Dean seems to know that in focusing on what's beyond, he can't afford to lose sight of what's right in front of him. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr./Fort Dodge and Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines
...when Alan Chow, founder of Optobionics, began developing the artificial retina that could help some blind people regain sight, bionic technology was mostly considered fantasy. "When we started, what we proposed was such a radically different approach to incurable eye disease that the idea was considered science fiction," says Chow, 50. But with 10 trial operations since 2000, Chow and Optobionics are inching closer to the regulatory nod that would usher their bionic device into the mainstream medical world...