Word: cars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tuna that boil up in schools less than a mile offshore, around 15 to 30 lbs. apiece. That day they were abundant in the sapphire water; I hooked five, boated three and kept one. Gutted, tailed and beheaded, it went into a cooler in the back of my rented car. The crew and I would eat it that night as sashimi. Whistling gaily, I shut the gate to Eco Beach behind me and turned left on the deserted, twilit Great Northern Highway...
...witnesses. The police, who reached the scene later, claim I had drifted into the wrong lane (Australia drives on the left; the U.S. and Europe on the right), but this isn't settled. In any case, though I believe my lights were on, I didn't see the oncoming car, a Ford with three...
What do you feel when you get whacked? In my case, nothing, and I remember nothing, which seems weirder still but is actually normal. Doctors speak of "post-traumatic amnesia," PTA for short, to denote this peculiar whiting out of violent episodes. The other car hit me head on but slightly off center; its impact was concentrated on the driver's side. It then spun off the road, though its occupants too, astonishingly, survived. Under such an impact, bones may not just break; they can explode, like a cookie hit by a hammer, and that's what happened to several...
...tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could so easily have been otherwise, and in the weeks since I have sometimes thought how wildly, irrationally lucky I was to be spared. But not at the time. With the remains of my rented Japanese car folded around me like crude origami, I was trapped, intermittently conscious but aware of no pain, and losing blood...
...brass at DaimlerChrysler have finally decided to reenter the world of stock car racing. The German-American automaker will announce this week that it is offering a car with a Chrysler engine and a Dodge body to NASCAR teams. The old Chrysler Corp. dropped out of stock car racing when the company slashed its motor-sports program in the 1970s in an effort to save money. It is no secret in Detroit that representatives from NASCAR have been wooing Dodge for years in hope that the addition of another big all-American nameplate will help make the Winston Cup series...