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Self-Driving Cars Hit a Speed Bump
KickingTiresAs recently as February, purveyors of self-driving cars, which would whisk you to the store while you did squat, predicted the cars would be here this decade. Google has had a fleet of them since 2010; Audi, GM, Toyota and......Tags: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Automotive Equipment, The Detroit News, Google Inc., Manufacturing and Engineering
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Report: Number of Teens in Fatal Crashes Plummets
KickingTiresThe number of teen drivers involved in fatal crashes fell by nearly a third between 2004 and 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today. The spread of graduated driver licensing, which is now used in 49 states,......Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Human Interest, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Road Transportation, Health Organizations
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Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative sends out "old news"
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsIn the past 12 months Delray Beach has ramped up its marketing and branding efforts and on Tuesday it seemed to have paid off. The Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative sent out a press release announcing that the city was recently......Tags: Delray Beach, Human Interest, AOL LLC, Marketing
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Clinton and sexism -- Not 'death knell'
The Swampby Mark Silva Was Sen. Hillary Clinton a victim of sexism in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination? Some of her supporters say so. Then again, some will say that Sen. Barack Obama has suffered from racial prejudice......Tags: Parliament, Texas, Economic Policy, Terrorism, Upper House
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McCain's infectious Czech goof
The Swampby Frank James Sen. John McCain has gotten a lot of grief for more than once referring to the nation formerly known as Czechoslovakia by its prior name. Some have taken it as a sign of the 71-year old senator's......Tags: Georgia, Barack Obama, Tom Daschle, Mitt Romney, John McCain
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Auto-Pilot Mode in Cars Could Help Families Stay Safe
MotherproofParents need an auto-pilot mode in their cars. How many times have you taken your eyes off the road to deal with your squawking kids in the backseat? Fortunately, technology is bringing us closer to this goal every day....Tags: Vehicles, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Services and Shopping
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National Teen Driver Safety Week
KickingTiresEveryone knows it: Distracted teens make for bad drivers. Sunday marks the beginning of National Teen Driver Safety Week, a week to bring teens, community leaders, educators and parents together to help stem avoidable accidents and injuries. The...Tags: Family, Vehicles, Injuries and Wounds, People, Social Issues
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Jobs created: Close enough for gov't?
The Swampby Mark Silva The White House is pushing back on the alleged "fiction'' of jobs created or saved under the $787-billion federal timulus bill - particularly what it views as the fiction surrounding reports that Recovery.gov, the official online accounting....Tags: Wages and Pensions, White House, Politics
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Arizona: 86 districts created or saved
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated The Obama administration promised "transparency'' in the accounting of that $787 billion in economic stimulus spending. Jonathan Karl and his eagle-eyed colleagues at ABC News saw right through it: In the case of those 30......Tags: Ohio, California, Washington (U.S. state), Arizona, Connecticut
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White House: 'No smoking gun'
The Swampby Jim Tankersley President Obama's leading counterterrorism advisor said this morning that human error - but not turf battles between federal intelligence officials - allowed an al Qaeda-trained operative to carry out an attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound...Tags: ABC (tv network), Christmas, Terrorism, Defense, Pakistan
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Obama: 'Buck stops with me'
The SwampSee the White House review: Summary of review.pdf See the order for action: Corrective actions.pdf See Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair's letter to the intelligence community this evening: Dennis Blair letter.pdf by Mark Silva and Christi...Tags: Nigeria, Christmas, Defense, Terrorism, Emergency Incidents
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Obama's agenda bogged down by spill
The Swampby Peter Nicholas Heading into midterm elections that threaten his party's control of Congress, President Obama is struggling with an unending environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico that makes it almost impossible to stick with his agenda. This...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Elections, Disasters and Accidents, BP Plc, Gaza Strip
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