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Doesn’t anyone use turn signals anymore? That was the thought running through my mind after two recent near collisions, with other cars making sudden…

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Acompanion to the PBS documentary, “Good News . . . How Hospitals Heal Themselves,” The Nun and the Bureaucrat: How They Found an…

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Every partnership occasionally runs into rocky roads, but the relationship between U.S. auto giant Ford Motor Company and Japanese tire maker Bridgestone/Firestone Inc.recently hit…

John, who is 14, and another teenager were passing a football back and forth at youth camp. Since we were inside, and there were…