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That is precisely the image Mixner has cultivated for himself. Born to a working-class family in New Jersey, he went off to Arizona State University at 17 and fell in love -- with a football player. After his lover was killed in an automobile crash, Mixner told of the tragedy to many friends, changing the gender. He did not come out until he was 30. A recovering alcoholic, he blames his drinking at least partly on the strains of concealing his true nature. When he decided to assert his homosexuality, he did it with characteristic thoroughness, sending letters to hundreds...
...m.p.h. Nickel-cadmium batteries provide 50% more power but at eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile. When exposed to water in crash impacts, they have an unpleasant tendency to produce a vehicular meltdown...
...great fun of the day for secretaries is, of course, watching the office try to cope without them while they are on their long celebratory lunch. After watching your average boss break the copier, send an important document into fax limbo, crash the computer system and juggle twenty people on hold, it's easy to conclude that a Secretaries Week would lead to the shutdown of corporate America...
...impossible to monitor data traffic if you can't reach the cable or if the network will crash you break the cable. As it is, any enterprising reporter for The Crimson with a $3000 protocol-analyzer could read everything going in or out of anyone's networked computer...
That raising the drinking age will reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities relies on another crucial assumption: 18-to-21 year olds who drive after drinking are more likely to crash mainly because they are inexperienced drivers. Any alcohol-related impairment thus affects them more drastically. But a 1990 study by two economists showed that the relevant statistical link was between drunk-driving fatalities and drinking experience. Their conclusion: At best, raising the drinking age seems primarily to postpone fatalities...