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...past two decades, traffic deaths of newly licensed 16-year-olds surged about 50% between 1975 and 1996. Even more troubling than the rising body count are the reasons behind it. Alcohol, the main culprit in teen accidents in the '80s, is now much less of a problem, thanks to a major educational blitz. Instead, safety specialists blame the sort of naive errors that killed Wells and her friends. Citing cutbacks in driver education by schools, experts contend that young motorists simply have inadequate skills. Sean McLaurin, a highway-safety specialist for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, laments...
...mail to his Milan-based racing team. Desperately trying to interpret computerized weather charts, he was also troubled. He was still 18 miles from the spot where a satellite tracking system said Isabelle Autissier, 42, his French rival in the Around Alone solo global race, had capsized. "The problem is that these positions aren't precise, and it won't be easy to see Isabelle's boat. Visibility is always poor, and in any case I'll need some luck...
Reality Bites might stand a chance at getting a spot on the Food Network; look at the success of mtv's The Real World. The problem, alas, would be in attracting viewers. My natural audience, women with children, wouldn't make time to watch me cook for my family--they barely have time to cook for their own. And when they do tune in, after the kids are in bed and the dishwasher's loaded, they're not looking for a mirror, they're looking for a window...
...Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
...Senate committee investigating the nation's Y2K problem plans is issuing a report Tuesday, and its basic message is: Be prepared for some disruptions, but don't panic. The senators conclude that the United States will not suffer a meltdown of services, but there will be glitches. Some of the systems that could suffer minor disruptions include those involved in food and energy distribution, medical records and financial records. "The Senate report underscores the fact that the Y2K problem is serious," says TIME assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, "but it is not the end of the world...