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The experience is exhilarating, but the landings can be rough. The impacts often cause "snowmobiler's back," a compression fracture in which several vertebrae are rammed painfully together. Last year hurt spines accounted for roughly 13% of the nation's 306 reported snowmobile injuries, and investigators at the...
Compression fractures are often accompanied by ruptured spinal discs and torn muscles. Victims may spend as long as five months in a torso cast or in traction. Some face a lifetime of continuing pain or disability.
Rebuffed by Congress in his attempts to hike taxes on leaded gasoline. President Nixon last week issued an executive order that all federally owned vehicles must use no-lead or low-lead gas. His theory is excellent; such fuels reduce hydrocarbon emissions polluting the air by as much as 20...
Shell, Esso, Chevron and Amoco make ambitious claims. Esso's Big Plus is touted as "the lowest-lead, highest-octane gasoline for the money," and Chevron boasts that its F-310 fuel will "reduce fuel consumption, improve performance and cut maintenance." Ethyl Corp., which pioneered the use of lead...
Compressed History. Where Z departs from the facts is in its implication that the present junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos was involved in the right-wing plot. By a convenient compression of history, Z strongly suggests that the junta engineered the assassination, then used the ensuing disorders as a...