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...first near-miss occurred after an irresponsible student packed 27 young children into a van legally meant to transport only 15 passengers. Because students were overflowing the regulation seats, some were seated on the floors--making it impossible for the counselors to maintain control in the small van as it sped along the Mass Pike to Riverside Park...
There are reasons for the quickening national paralysis: more and more people live and work in locations that are not linked to adequate public transport, millions of women have entered the work force and are new rush-hour drivers, ingenious alternatives seem to get stymied by lack of imagination or money or both, and, above all, gas is cheap. In places where gas is still below a dollar, many drivers have reverted to old habits, and in some parts of the U.S. a two-occupant car is about as common as a bald eagle...
...mosquitoes, which carry such diseases as malaria and yellow fever, also transport the deadly AIDS virus? The question arose in 1985, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta studied an unusually dense clustering of AIDS sufferers in the mosquito-infested area of Belle Glade, Fla. Last week the Atlanta Constitution stirred up the mosquito scare anew by publishing the preliminary findings of a research team sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Its tentative conclusion: the AIDS virus can indeed ride as a passenger on the blood-sucking mosquito...
...supplies to the contras in Nicaragua. That company was founded and run by Colonel Richard Gadd, a retired Air Force cargo-plane pilot who was a longtime associate of Secord's. Gadd had also worked for the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces, which hired him in 1983 to transport helicopter pilots to Barbados prior to the invasion of Grenada...
TRUCKING. While most people are probably unaware of it, the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 has saved them a bundle. The law boosted efficiency by dismantling 45 years' worth of interstate hauling rules, including some oddball anomalies like provisions that allowed agricultural haulers to transport milk but not yogurt or ice cream. All told, trucking deregulation since 1980 has saved consumers $72 billion in lower prices on the goods they buy, according to Citizens for a Sound Economy, a conservative, Washington-based research group...