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...effect is the same whether you use a handset or a hands-free phone, but, interestingly, listening to the radio or engaging in conversation with a fellow passenger isn't nearly as distracting. "There is something about talking on the phone that trips up the brain," says David Strayer, the study's author and a professor of psychology at the University of Utah, whose previous research found that drivers on cell phones were slower to react and five times more likely to have an accident than other motorists. "We are learning that there is something important about the production...
...separate series of studies using simulators Strayer and his colleagues asked participants to navigate various traffic conditions while talking on a cell phone, then again while talking to the same person, this time in the simulator. The cell-phone talkers were far more distracted than drivers who talked to a passenger: 50% of the drivers on cell phones missed a designated exit, while none of those talking to a passenger did. "You communicate differently when you are in the car with someone because both people are aware of and can adjust to conditions that might require more concentration," Strayer says...
...back seat. But the recent explosion in wireless technology has introduced a host of new and more complicated driver's side activities, like programming navigation systems, text messaging (which is even more dangerous than talking on the phone) and using laptops. "The distractions now are more cognitively demanding," says Strayer. "Now instead of short manual tasks like lighting a cigarette or changing the radio station, they have become mind-occupied tasks that take longer, placing a greater demand on the mind and compete for our attention...
...this point of his career.” Tri-captain Robbie Preston, competing at 133 pounds, was the only Crimson wrestler to fall short of All-American honors. He finished 3-2 in his third appearance at the nationals, losing in the round of 12 to Jake Strayer of Penn State, 9-6. “It was an extremely frustrating year,” Weiss said. “The whole team just kept believing, even though every time we turned around something would happen. But what these four guys did in the pressure match, where your season...
There are several lessons about twixters to be learned from Swann's tale. One is that most colleges are seriously out of step with the real world in getting students ready to become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% from 1996 to 2000. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin. In the fall, Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., will introduce a program called the Odyssey project, which the school says will encourage students to "think...