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...early. The purple evening light disappeared behind the banks of stadium lights and the New Jersey air fell like volcanic ash on the sunburned crowd. They had come in overheated Plymouths and air-conditioned Buicks, tiny soccer balls and cleats dangling from their mirrors, Budweiser coolers nestled on the front-seat vinyl. The trail of tail lights had meandered slowly into the asphalt moat that ringed the stadium. A voice had announced that the game would be delayed because hundreds of fans were trapped in Lincoln Tunnel...
...lives each year because drivers cannot avoid using them (some 80% of drivers and passengers do not buckle their lap and shoulder belts now). Air bags do not require a motorist to do anything; they inflate instantly upon the impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat passengers from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield. To be fully effective, however, an air-bag system should be supplemented with a lap belt-which is not passive. Only one other passive-restraint system exists, a shoulder harness that automatically protects the driver when the door is closed...
Thus did Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. explain an odd-sounding ruling last week. He admitted that air bags-which inflate instantly upon impact of a collision, keeping the driver and front-seat riders from being hurled against the dashboard or windshield-might save an estimated 12,000 lives a year if installed on all U.S.-made cars. Nonetheless, he refused to order such universal installation. Instead, Coleman asked the car companies to outfit 500,000 cars with air bags during the next two model years, in what would amount to a mass test...
Letelier died instantly, his legs blown off. Gobbets of flesh and blood-soaked upholstery were flung throughout the car's interior. A metal fragment slashed the neck of Letelier's front-seat companion, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, 25, severing her carotid artery. She drowned in her own blood. Her husband, Michael Moffitt, 25, who had been sitting in the back seat, somehow escaped almost uninjured...
...pointed out that none of our knowledge can depend on data in which the observer and the observed are in the same person. The prohibition was lamentable, from the viewpoint of a fuller understanding of human behavior--after all, who but the individual himself is always present, with a front-seat view of everything he does? Freud recognized the risks involved in self-analysis, but rejected the loss to the behavioral sciences imposed by Watson's prohibition and so ignored it. Through exhaustive self-examination, he arrived at the principles of introspective psychology. Skinner overcomes the stricture by stepping outside...