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...safest drivers in the study had half the crash risk of students without parental surveillance in the year preceding the survey. The aggressively supervised teens were also 50% less likely to speed, 71% less likely to drive after drinking and 29% less likely to use their cell phones while on the road, compared with their friends who reported having more-permissive parents...
...paper offers a useful way of looking at the environment, especially for global policymakers. As the world grapples with climate change this week at the U.N. and G-20 summit, some clearly posted speed limits from scientists could help politicians craft global deals on carbon and other shared environmental threats. It's tough for negotiators to hammer out a new climate-change treaty unless they know just how much carbon needs to be cut to keep people safe. Rockstrom's work delineates the limits to human growth - economically, demographically, ecologically - that we transgress at our peril...
...rolled to a 5-0 halftime lead. “It was a great experience playing such a talented team,” said co-captain Elizabeth Goodman-Bacon, who felt the tough matchup would improve her team’s play in the future. “The speed of the game should raise our level of play,” Caples said. Despite a rough start, freshman goalkeeper Cynthia Tassopoulos recorded 23 saves, six more than she made in her first four games combined. “[The high number of shot attempts] was expected from such...
...arrangements could be made with authors and publishers to include copyrighted materials in its catalogue. But no one has billed this machine as anything else but what it really is—an incredible device that affords readers access to an extraordinary array of titles previously unavailable with such speed and in such quantity. Instead of faulting the “Espresso Book Machine” for the questions it does not answer, skeptics should realize the magnitude of the services this machine does provide, and we admire the Harvard Book Store for being among the first to invest...
...sudden flurry of conversation about Xi and his future underscores both how little is known about the inner workings of the Party and the fact the Party itself is struggling to adapt to the blinding speed at which China's society and economy are changing. That fact was acknowledged in the otherwise content-free and jargon-laden Communiqué issued at the close of the Plenum. According to the official Xinhua news agency, the Communiqué stated that "many problems exist inside the Party that run counter to new circumstances and the Party's character, which 'are severely weakening...