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...ahead of him, measuring distance, pitch and angle. You give him little hints as he goes--"There's a doorway. O.K., now a right--no, left, sorry"--and he follows, his stride confident but easily arrested when he bumps into an old lady selling shawls, and then into the wheel of a scooter. The physical confidence that he projects has to do with having an athlete's awareness of how his body moves through space. Plenty of sighted people walk through life with less poise and grace than Erik, unsure of their steps, second-guessing every move. And certainly most...
...will take my hands off the wheel just long enough to applaud this turn of events. If the federal government is too wimpy to enforce safety measures, let?s turn to our state lawmakers. It?s about time for action. It?s been four years since the New England Journal of Medicine ran its infamous statistic: Using cell phones increases drivers? risk of accidents fourfold - or about the same amount as drinking and driving. And while it might be reasonable to assume this kind of dire warning would be enough to keep drivers? eyes on the road and off their...
...thought I was an observant man. Evidently not. Someone else, passing the Hermit's house a few days ago, looked into his "new" car - the one I took to be his lover's car - and saw the Hermit's body slumped over the steering wheel. He had been dead for several days...
...warning light flashed in August 1996 when, documents show, a trainee test driver in Oscoda, Mich., lost control of an Explorer while conducting lane-change maneuvers at 52.5 m.p.h. According to the accident report, the driver overcorrected for a rear-end slide, sending the vehicle first into a four-wheel slide and then a 360[degree] flip...
...warning light flashed in August 1996 when, documents show, a trainee test driver in Oscoda, Mich., lost control of an Explorer while conducting lane-change maneuvers at 52.5 m.p.h. According to the accident report, the driver overcorrected for a rear-end slide, sending the vehicle first into a four-wheel slide and then a 360[degree] flip...