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...states that have the law, officers can revoke a driver's license when the driver fails or refuses to take a breathalyzer test, and the revocation is separate from any criminal DUI charges the driver will incur. The law is mostly administered by the state's Department of Motor Vehicles; either the arresting officer seizes the license or the DMV sends the driver a letter stating that it is no longer valid. The suspension usually last 90 days but varies by state, and drivers have the right to appeal...
...Following the dispute in May when Gul, his nominee for President, was blocked, Erdogan has shown conciliatory signs - fielding a more moderate and centrist list of candidates in these elections, for instance. The next test will be his choice for a presidential candidate. Choosing one the secularists approve of would be a big step toward defusing Turkey's current political tensions. But with such an overwhelming mandate of support, Erdogan may be emboldened even further...
...students also use devious methods to make the grade. Last year two dozen were caught being fed answers through Bluetooth headsets concealed under wigs. Earlier this month, police busted a ring issuing fake IDs to university students taking the test in place of high school candidates. The price? $2,500, more than twice Vietnam's average annual wage. Authorities have beefed up security: keeping test papers under lock and key; sequestering exam professors; calling in security to guard test sites...
Surprisingly, that success owes very little to the development of new cancer drugs. Until 2003, there was no law enabling the Food and Drug Administration to require drug companies to test new medicines in children, in part because of concerns that this would endanger the rights and health of youngsters. Even today anticancer drugs are approved first in adults, leaving children to make do with older classes of medications. So most of the gains have come from wiser use of existing chemotherapy drugs in innovative combinations that are more potent as packages than as individual compounds...
...circulate research reports to the entire firm. Anyone can weigh in. And when the analyst thinks it's time to change the firm's exposure to a stock, the first stop is a sector committee, made up of people who know an industry well and can drill down to test the idea in depth. "The nature of this business is that you're going to be wrong a lot of the time," says Diana Strandberg, who sits on the committees that pick domestic and international stocks. "We're all in it together...