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Confronting road carnage

Few look forward miracles from the move this week to raise the minimum age for a learner's driving latitude from 15 to 16. Nor will the zero alcohol threshold for under-20s save many lives. Both changes, however, are steps in the moral direction. Both will make our roads just a little safer.

Defense Secretary warns against defense cuts to come

The so-called “impaired tranche” of deficit reduction, in the hands of a soon-to-be-named “supercommittee” of lawmakers backed by the commination of an automatic sequestration “trigger” should it fail to agree on adequate further cuts, would almost certainly push the military past what incoming chairman of the Mutual Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey described as a “very high risk” threshold of cuts. The default reduction law seeks another $1.2 to $1.5 trillion in cuts and, if the supercommittee fails to be met by the target, mandates additional reductions (split between domestic and security accounts).