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Young men are still more likely than young women to get arrested, crash their cars or fight in school. But while men's rates of risky behavior are falling, women's are either holding level or rising--a sign, experts say, that male-oriented prevention and treatment programs need to change...
Although drivers ages 15 to 20 have dramatically reduced their alcohol-related fatal traffic accidents, the number of girls involved in other deadly crashes has increased since 1982 while it has fallen for boys. The likelihood that a 16-year-old girl will have an accident has increased almost 10% since 1990--and cars with two or more teens inside are twice as likely to crash as cars in which a teen is driving solo...
...Humanity manual labor. The adventurous can backpack through Europe or Asia. The science-concentrating seniors may journey to Cambridge’s illustrious bio labs to complete their theses. The semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine might choose to crash at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion in Los Angeles...
...Valerie Chapman, widow of Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman, 36, who lived in Fayetteville, N.C., had the same thought. "You have to love it to do what they do," she said of her husband, who died with Anderson and four others in the fire fight after the Chinook crash-landed. "And he loved...
...Witness the carnage after the sharp, unexpected crash on corporate I.T. spending late in 2000: losses convinced IBM to all but abandon in-house PC manufacturing by farming assembly out to subcontractors. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are trying to merge. Dell was hurt by the downturn, too. The company laid off 1,700 workers last year, its first redundancies ever. But it still managed to increase sales by 18.3% in 2001, showing a profit of $2.1 billion...