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Traffic safety engineers are developing new technologies to alert drivers to areas where pedestrian traffic is heavy at certain times of the day. St. Petersburg, Fla., for example, has installed motion detectors at some crossings where there are no traffic signals; when a pedestrian approaches, a squawkbox urges him or her to push a button before crossing, triggering high-intensity flashing lights that drivers can see some distance from the intersection. City officials credit the system with boosting driver compliance with crosswalk laws from 8% to 84%. Washington plans to install similar bilingual devices at some of its high-risk...
...Gustavo Loza. The largest transition, though, appeared in the play of freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien, who took the court in third doubles and five singles. “At three, we were playing freshman doubles,” Harvard coach Dave Fish said. “There was a certain lack of confidence in doing the right things…. But they kept fighting. Aba’s been sick and I think he was pushing really hard to get ramped up. He came back in the singles and made up for it.” The freshman?...
...driving Durbin around and hugging Oprah probably weren’t as exciting as a certain basketball game he was able to play...
...than answers. The department refused to name the employees involved, or the contractors they worked for. Nor would they say where these incidents happened. They had no explanation as to why none of the higher-ups in the department had been told about them, nor could they say for certain that these were the only three cases in which Obama's files had been looked at improperly...
Chantal Sbire is dead, but the debate she ignited over French laws prohibiting victims of terminal diseases from receiving euthanasia is certain to live on. Just 48 hours after a Dijon court rejected Sbire's request that doctors help her end her agony-stricken life without risking legal punishment, the 52 year-old was found dead in her home Wednesday night. Initial tests Thursday were unable to determine whether Sbire's death was induced or the result of the rare disease that left her horribly disfigured and in near-constant pain. But news of her passing provoked...