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Around eight-thirty Thursday morning, the morning commute for some drivers heading north along I-15 near Alpine was interrupted briefly by a traffic accident. Traffic slowed, then stopped for some minutes as emergency personnel hurried to secure the area, load both the white Honda Pilot and the forest green Jeep Cherokee onto tow-trucks, and then clean…
Read MoreWhen I’m in the shower, I’m afraid to wash my hair ‘Cause I might open my eyes and find someone standing there People say I’m crazy, just a little touched But maybe showers remind me of Psycho too much… Rockwell’s 1984 debut single, Somebody’s Watching Me, describes the thought process of a man who believes…
Read MoreIn a model constructed by Bill Nye for an 1989 episode of Almost Live, a persistent question is answered: If you were to jump at the last moment before hitting the ground, would you be able to avoid injury in a falling elevator? For the experiment, Bill Nye places a volunteer named Alan the Egg…
Read MoreSpinal cord injury is widely thought to be the kind of dramatic fate that befalls “other people.” However, there are an estimated 200,000 people in the United States currently affected by this very condition. These aren’t reckless daredevils whose luck has finally caught up with them, but the victims of motor vehicle accidents, same-level falls,…
Read More“It’d make great video if I, like, fell…rolled down the hill…on these rocks…that’d be cool.” These were the facetious words of a hiker on the “Y” just before he fulfilled his own sarcastic prophecy and took a tumble down the mountainside. At least, that’s the idea we get from the title of the video—“Slip and…
Read MoreTo pigeonhole is “to assign to a definite place or to definite places in some orderly system.” To pigeonhole something, you make a quick judgment about it so that you can categorize it as part of some larger whole, rather than another piece of information to keep track of. Pigeonholing objects or ideas is an…
Read MoreThere can be any number of reasons for hesitation to act following the death of family member—grief, numbness, ignorance of the procedures involved, etc. When in mourning, even the most mundane processes may be far out of mind, supplanted by feelings of loss and spiritual exhaustion. In the case of a wrongful death, resentment may…
Read MoreIn what we can only hope is not a preview to the coming summer, an altercation between a driver and pedestrian came to blows on July 16th last year. When a 50-year-old man crossing just outside a crosswalk gestured rudely at the 63-year-old driver who refused to slow down for him, the driver deferred his…
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