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...causes car and motorcycle accidents. Asian countries are more vulnerable to road-related mishaps because traffic-safety measures have been put on the back burner. In spite of an increasing number of cars and drivers, governments here don't put a high priority on establishing safer traffic systems. Red tape has further slowed any progress. Some steps that should be taken are developing better postcrash medical treatment, creating safety awareness among drivers and stringently enforcing safety rules. Let the road lead its users to their destinations rather than to the gates of heaven. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...Chicago, telling reporters she thought she was "too opinionated" to make an attractive juror. Attorneys disagreed and selected Oprah for a murder trial. Serving for $17.20 a day, the media mogul and her fellow jurors voted to convict after deliberating for just over two hours. Now Oprah plans to tape an episode of her show about the experience, which she called a "huge reality check." Judges may want to start preparing now for a healthy turnout of future jury pools. The woman who persuaded mainstream America to embrace both Tolstoy and Dr. Phil could make the most underloved of civic...
...give up playing bridge at 110. She no longer travels solo to visit kin in Omaha, Neb., and San Diego, as she did at 100, and she relies on a cane to take steps, but Johnston can still hear fairly well, and she loves listening to books on tape. (Now it's Lark Rise to Candleford, about life at the end of the 19th century--a period otherwise known as her childhood...
...presided--to this day--over an administration beset by ethical lapses. McGreevey's commerce secretary, chief of staff and state police director have all departed under various conflict-of-interest charges. And Kushner was recently charged in a bizarre sex scandal; he allegedly sent his sister a tape of her husband having sex with a prostitute in an effort to gain leverage over his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in an investigation of Kushner's finances. Finally, McGreevey was caught on an FBI tape using the word "Machiavelli." Prosecutors said it was a code word to trigger a bribery...
...create the cement circles for the stadium's two competition shot put areas, but in the end, they were perfect too, the final touches added in the early evening prior to the day's competition. For the rest, there was little interference with the ancient stadium - besides a little tape and string here and there, the grounds were as they had been in A.D. 393, when they last hosted an Olympic competition...