Road rage on highways sparks deadly crashes and policy calls
A study of AAA data shows a 51 percent rise in road violence from 1990 to 1995 with 218 deaths and 12 610 injuries. Experts urge patience and therapy while lawmakers tighten enforcement as survivors face prison terms for violent freeway actions.
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Americas
George Washington Memorial Parkway
McLean
Cicero
N.Y
Leon James
University of Hawaii
Lence
American Automobile Association
Lou Mizell
AAA
Dayton
Ohio
Larry Davis
California
Arnold Nerenberg
Nerenberg
Hawaii
James
Narkey Terry
Leonie Brinkema
Terry
Maytime Outdoors Lure Brims With Marshland Life
May brings active wildlife along marshes ponds and lake shores with indigo buntings meadowlarks orchard orioles and scarlet tanagers. Skunk cabbage dandelions marsh marigolds and wild flowers color the wetlands while warblers and wrens flit through willows and pines.
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Blue Lake
Pampas
Argentina
Lessons From Life Commencement Address Notes
The speech recalls a humorous but inappropriate snake gag and pivots to lessons for graduates. It mocks trivia vs real skills, cites a Steve Miller joke misquote, and laments outdated area code trivia amid jokes about the future and life after school.
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Steve Miller
Maurice
United States
Winkerswood
Fort Lauderdale
Mayflower and the Class of 1997 on Aerial Area Codes
Dave Barry mocks the era of random three digit area codes and competing phone plans. He questions the power of future graduates to fight telephone giants and packaging designs. He riffs on consumer products, plastic wrap, and the infamous cutting edge. The piece ends citing a page 3C continuation.
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Candice Bergen
NASA
Nurse plants vital to agave survival in Sonoran Desert
Ecoview explains how desert bunchgrass acts as a nurse plant for agave seedlings in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. UCLA researchers A C Franco and P Nobel found agave seedlings cluster around bunchgrass to gain shade and higher soil nitrogen, aiding survival amid extreme surface temperatures.
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Honeyguide Birds
Africa
Kipling
Animal Kingdom
Sonoran Desert
Sonoran
Mojave
Southwest
A. C. Franco
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