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...developing countries harbor a host of other factors that heighten the peril. With car and motorcycle sales rising fast, deficit-ridden governments are hard-pressed to build wider, safer highways to accommodate swarms of new commuters. In poorer nations, existing road systems are often badly maintained and lack basic infrastructure such as stop signs and traffic signals. Traffic in Asia is frequently a tumultuous and deadly mix of pedestrians, affordable (but highly vulnerable) motorcycles, cars, pickup trucks ferrying loads of passengers, and heavy trucks that feed the region's voracious economic engine?all vying for places in line along...
...outside the polls. Like most other Democrats, he expected state representative Paul Sheehy to win. Sheehy fit the part. His family had been in Lowell since the 1880s. He was one of seven children of a fire fighter. "Sheehy was the first to go to college. He was your basic Irish success story," Sullivan says...
That was the problem. According to basic quantum theory, information can't be destroyed. Hiding it away forever inside a black hole is bad enough, but hiding it in a hole that eventually evaporates is unthinkable...
...said the Democratic Party could expand because it could work to satisfy the four basic desires of the vast majority of the country: jobs that pay well, health insurance for themselves and particularly for their children, strong public school education and a strong and ethical national security policy...
...teen birthrates are at record lows; teen crime rates are plummeting; kids are swearing off cigarettes (the smoking rate for high school seniors is the lowest it has been in 29 years), staying in school (87% of young Americans now earn high school diplomas) and getting much of the basic health care they need (immunization rates are high, for example, with 90% of kids getting vaccinated against hepatitis B and a record 81% against chicken...