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...Sources: International Herald Tribune; New York Times (2); AFP; A.P.; OK! Numbers Sources: CPJ (2); Pew/Internet (2); TIME.com (2); AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
...DRUNK DRIVING 9% Percentage of U.S. adults who believe they have driven while over the legal blood-alcohol limit in the past month 52% Percentage of traffic fatalities in Hawaii in 2006 involving alcohol, the highest of any American state...
...planes take flight, Eurocontrol, Europe's air-traffic control agency, has raised concerns over their introduction to already congested airspace. The agency predicts that 100 new microjets will take to Europe's skies each year for the next decade, each of them flying an average of three flights a day. Very light jets cruise at the same altitudes as large commercial craft, but at slower speeds. Under legislation written before such small jets were conceived, they are not required to carry the same collision-avoidance systems as larger jets. Alex Hendriks, Eurocontrol's deputy director of air-traffic management, compares...
...asked Google how much traffic the chrome tulips drove to iGoogle, but a company spokesperson declined to comment, saying only that Google had received "positive feedback" from users. She said that iGoogle currently accounts for 20 percent of visits to Google's home page - a proportion, I bet, that Google would love to reverse. The spokesperson also declined to address any link between iGoogle and OpenSocial, noting only that "we recently launched an iGoogle sandbox to developers, which gives developers the ability to build more interactive gadgets that can incorporate OpenSocial." Indeed, you can find more than 75,000 "gadgets...
Behind the concrete barriers and relocated traffic of Brattle Street, pedestrians may have noticed a cry for help posted above the green-striped awning of Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe: “CITY OF CAMBRIDGE IS NOT PAYING OUR BILLS DURING CONSTRUCTION PLEASE HELP.” The gourmet sandwich and specialty foods shop, a Harvard Square institution for over 57 years, is located at the intersection of JFK and Brattle Streets. Construction by the city of Cambridge to create a larger crosswalk has obstructed the intersection of JFK Street, Brattle Street, and Mass. Ave. for both pedestrians...