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Strategies for a safer road environment - Part
II:
Effective traffic management pivotal
The next category of victims is pedal cyclists
who contribute to nine to 10 percent of fatalities. A decade ago
this category contributed to a higher percentage of fatalities. The
drop in being involved to a lesser degree is certainly not due to
safe riding but due to most of them changing over to faster and
riskier modes such as motorcycles and Mopeds.
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Socio-economic scene
Red tape - understanding the morass
Isaac Asimov, in his witty short story ‘Blind
Alley’, based upon his own experience in the US Navy, shows how an
able bureaucrat (in this case, a planetary administrator) works
strictly within the rules to make a change. ‘The rules and systems,’
says Asimov’s Civilian Supervisor Loodun Antyok, ‘must be
sufficiently all embracing and rigid so that in case of incompetent
officials ... little harm is done.’
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Private medical education - relevant considerations
Every year over 20,000 students qualify to enter
the science stream in universities by obtaining the requisite grades
of three passes in Biology, Physics/Mathematics and Chemistry at one
sitting at the A/L examination; of these, there are vacancies only
for about 1,200 students to enter the eight State Medical Schools.
Few years ago, few students were admitted to a newly established
medical faculty in the Sir John Kotelawela Defence University to
serve in the Armed Forces after graduation,
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