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...town of San Francisco-a dreary, concrete facsimile of its famous namesake-we are picked up by two N.P.A. men in jeans and T shirts in a four-wheel drive with darkened windows, then speed out of town along potholed logging tracks. As we leave the highway far behind, the villages grow visibly poorer; a rare stretch of paved road is announced by a sign bearing the President's face and the slogan GLORIA CARES. In many villages, government troops are dug in behind sandbags and razor wire. Three hours later, we transfer to trail bikes and roar along deserted...
...parent about birthday parties and you'll probably get a sigh and a description of the last party their kid went to - limousine service, a petting zoo or Ferris wheel, and definitely elaborate goody bags - followed by their despair at having to organize their own equally expensive party for their child's birthday...
...been drinking, a car will soon take away your keys. Toyota is developing steering-wheel sweat sensors that will detect a driver's blood-alcohol level, then disable the car if necessary...
...approach the sprawling mega-cities of South Asia - Bombay, Dhaka, Delhi - for sheer racket. It seems almost compulsory in south Asia to use your horn constantly. On a recent visit to Dhaka, Bangladesh, I noticed that the taxi driver I hired had worn smooth a spot on his steering wheel where his right thumb rested and pressed the horn incessantly as he weaved through traffic. In India and Bangladesh, turn signals and rear mirrors are for sissies. Drivers are responsible for what's ahead of them, not what's behind. Many studiously ignore vehicles not in their direct line...
...ever died because he mixed two kinds of juice and got behind the wheel, of course. But Ludwig, who is director of the Optimal Weight for Life program at Children's Hospital Boston, worries that misleading nutritional data in a society obsessed with food, health, and weight can confuse the public and lead to poor public-health policy. He wants government to step up independent funding for nutritional science - and for consumers to know they'll have to work to keep a study's results in perspective when industry funding has been disclosed. "It might say, buyer beware. But then...