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Reference Notes Unit 8 Smarter Transportation Reading Focus The Hidden Danger of Seat Belt About the author and the text 1. David Bjerklie, the writer of this passage, is a senior reporter at TIME. He has covered a broad range of stories for the science section of the magazine since 1984, including 40 cover stories on such topics as cold fusion (冷聚变——室温或近室温下发生的核聚变), cloning, ice age art, vegetarianism, bioethics (生物伦理学) and the origin of life. Most recently he has covered obesity, fetal development, mental health, women and heart disease, as well as meditation, mental health, diabetes a