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Getting a driver's license remains a signal milestone for teens in their impatient journey toward adulthood--and for their parents, eager to liberate themselves from constant chauffeuring duties. But car crashes are the main cause of death for U.S. teenagers, killing about 6,000 drivers between the ages of 16 and 19 each year. That's more fatalities for this age group than those caused by guns and drug overdoses combined. And the younger and less experienced the driver, the worse the danger. Drivers ages 16 to 19 have a fatality rate four times as high as that...
...other aircraft or obstacles. Lidle did not (and was not required to) file a "flight plan," or detailed route, with the Federal Aviation Administration before taking off from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. General aviation planes like Lidle's typically have transponders that automatically send out a signal that makes them visible on an air traffic controller's radar...
...consciously signal these significant changes, Cornwell wrote “Blow Fly” in the present tense and the third person. The new books are more voyeuristic, but they lack a narrative cohesiveness, always jumping from one character to another. As a result, the plotlines are more tangled and fantastic. And while some might delight in the sociopathic psyche, the long passages about lurid homicidal thoughts and sweaty erections occasionally teem with overkill. For obvious reasons, Cornwell is also less convincing when she writes about the inner workings of serial killers compared to the minds of career women...
...international acclaim (including being named as one of TIME's European heroes for 2003), was assassinated outside her apartment last Saturday. The fact that her execution-style killing coincides with an escalation of Moscow's campaign against neighboring Georgia will be taken by many in Russia as a chilling signal of the rise of an authoritarian nationalism that brooks no challenge...
...benefits are grounded in biology, says Flexer. The brain's auditory networks are not fully developed until about age 15, so kids require a quieter environment and a louder signal than do adults when absorbing spoken information. Flexer has found that special-education referrals are fewer in classrooms that are wired for sound, compared with ordinary classrooms, where background noise and distractions compete with the teacher's voice. She believes a sound system is as vital to learning as adequate lighting...