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...particularly bad aftertaste for one small business: Butlers' Funeral Homes and Crematorium in Nassau, the Bahamas. Loretta Turner, the funeral-home director, told TIME that Virgin Records, the singer's label, is reneging on a verbal agreement to pay the costs of preparation and transport of the bodies of Aaliyah and eight members of her entourage who died in the crash. The mortuary...
...gratis to parched visitors traveling along the trail. Then again, it may be a clever sales ploy: once stopped it's not long before you're offered a liter bottle of fermented palm wine for a dollar, with a kick to match that of the sturdy Timorese ponies that transport old men to market...
...virility. Such changes in culture and mindset, some experts say, will come only with imposed discipline over the long run. "Apart from a total alcohol ban, France doesn't need new laws, regulations or devices - rather, better enforcement of existing laws," says Wolfgang Hubner, director of the o.e.c.d.'s transport division in Paris. "The U.K., with roughly the same population as France, has decreased fatalities through tighter enforcement - which over time also produced a more generalized respect of road laws." Auto deaths per million last year were 57.6 in Britain, 84.9 in Germany and 137.7 in France...
...statistics come from a white paper on E.U. transport published late last year, a study that also raises what might be called the collateral damage of so many accidents. The transport Commissioner, Spain's Loyola de Palacio, reckons this causes losses of some j45 billion, primarily in health and labor costs. Aside from the direct price of so much killing and maiming, traffic congestion adds many millions more euros in wasted fuel consumption, with its accompanying pollution. Earlier this year, in the Italian industrial region of Lombardy, air-particle counts five times the alert level were being recorded. That meant...
...Transport Commission white paper throws up some interesting ideas, the aim being to slash the road toll by 2010. Among 60 proposals are common road signs throughout the 15 E.U. countries, common fines for similar offenses, tougher laws to protect cyclists, signaling frequent crash sites, more research into airbags and tires, fitting all cars with black boxes like those in aircraft. Sounds good. But doesn't it nearly all come down to attitude? One bumper sticker I remember from my youth in Australia just said, "Courtesy is Catching." It is. Another read, "Better late than dead on time." There...