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The time of year when more deadly crashes happen, especially among younger drivers, is underway with the start of Memorial Day. The time between Memorial Day and Labor Day is often referred to as the "100 Deadliest Days," as first identified by AAA more than a decade ago and typically references young drivers. However, traffic deaths increase during that time of year for all road users, according to Erin Breen, director of the Road Equity Alliance Project at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.
Memorial Day marks the beginning of what’s known as the 100 deadliest days of the year on roadways. With teens and college students free from classes and families on vacation, there is more activity on the road. That increased activity during the span between Memorial Day and Labor Day leads to an uptick in crashes, including many involving younger drivers.
As revolving credit card debt and high financing costs persist, experts are raising doubts about whether credit can keep bridging the gap between growing, but not momentous, income growth and aspirational spending.
Frequent flyers know that the skies are not always smooth, and while turbulence fatalities are rare, the overall bumpiness in the air is becoming more frequent, and severe.
Most of us are familiar with the deep, golden-orange spice, turmeric, used for adding color, flavor, and nutrition to foods. The use of turmeric (Curcuma longa) can be traced back thousands of years and is still a key ingredient in foods particularly Indian and other Asian cuisines. Ayurveda has attributed numerous therapeutic applications to turmeric for treating a wide variety of diseases such as those of the skin, pulmonary system, gastrointestinal system, depression, hepatic disorders, aches, pains, wounds, and sprains which modern science is rediscovering.
Don Snyder remembers taking strolls through the student union on the 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ campus during his time as dean of the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality.
12 people injured on Qatar Airways flight traveling from Doha to Dublin. CBC's Deana Sumanac-Johnson discusses flight turbulence with aviation historian and former pilot.
On the night of May 21, tens of thousands of Taiwanese people, including many college and senior high school students, demonstrated in the rain outside the Legislative Yuan, the parliament of Taiwan. They were opposing a new package of bills that would expand legislative power, proposed by the Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), the two main opposition parties that together hold a majority in the Legislative Yuan.
