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Sixteen-year-old boys still are the most risky drivers on the road, but the girls are gaining.For every 1,000 licensed 16-year-old girls, 175 got in car accidents in 2000, according to federal accident data. That s up 37 percent from 1990, when 128 girls crashed per 1,000 drivers.Accidents for 16-year-old boys decreased slightly during the same period, from 216 to 210 per 1,000 drivers.Susan Ferguson, senior vice pre
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Designed with the hopes that it would completely transform urban transportation, the Segway was a battery-powered self-balancing two-wheeled scooter that was unfortunately priced way too high to catch on. But the technology behind it was impressive, which is why the company latest creation, a three-wheeled trike that doesn ;t balance at all, feels like a disappointing compromise. It almost as if Segway decided to make its own non-balancing Segway knock-off, but there are actually strategic reasons for adding that third wheel, the company claims. Because the SE-3 Patrolle
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