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People have always multitasked behind the wheel: They smoke, brush their teeth, put on makeup, yell at the kids in the 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...
...disability, but sometimes also because they feel pressure to hide weakness. The AEO and Harvard must foster a culture in which students feel comfortable sharing their disabilities and getting the assistance they need.Most of the manpower needed to assist disabled students goes toward coordinating technology such as Braille embossing, text-to-speech readers, or computer monitors with large fonts provided by the Adaptive Technology Lab (ATL) in the Science Center. The ATL operates separately from the AEO, and while students eventually interact with the ATL directly, the AEO must approve initial requests. The Science Center is much more accessible than...
...lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out. Since human frailty is a law of nature, states are compensating with some rules of their own--what are laws if not expectations carved in stone? As of the New Year, you can no longer text-message while driving in Washington State. North Carolina bar owners have to recycle their bottles, and politicians have to tell the truth: all candidates will be asked if they've ever been convicted of a felony, and lying when they answer would count as one. Airlines have resolved to treat us better...
...severe judgment on the state of French culture. My opinion is that it probably is correct, and that in fact many artists from my country are a bit provincial, a little stagnant, unbearably narcissistic and inward-looking. It is not bad to see this denounced. But this bizarre text, the more I think about it, seems less and less a survey of France and more and more a savage reflection of the state of American culture itself. This article speaks truly of America and of what will happen to it on that day when the increasing power of Spanish, Chinese...
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