Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of the key mysteries are far from solved--and some troubling facts have emerged. Among them: the hastily rented black Mercedes S-280 may have had serious mechanical failures; and driver Paul's blood, apart from a high alcohol content, showed an abnormally high--and yet unexplained--level of carbon monoxide. A summary of TIME's findings...
...DRIVER Postmortem tests showed that Paul was legally drunk and under the influence of two prescription drugs on the night of the accident. Less known is the fact that Paul's blood contained an abnormally high level of carbon monoxide (CO): 20.7%, enough to provoke somnolence, severe dizziness or even put some people in a coma. "I don't see how he could walk in that state, much less take the wheel," says the head of the antipoison center at a major Paris hospital...
...Paul's CO level got so high remains a mystery. He could not have breathed exhaust fumes in the tunnel, since he died instantly of a severed spinal cord. If exhaust had leaked into the car's interior en route to the tunnel, all passengers would have been affected. But Dodi's autopsy showed no significant trace of CO. One possible source might be a faulty heater. But the heating systems in Paul's apartment and office, unused in August, were found to function normally. Experts say a "massive" exposure to certain industrial products, like the solvent dichloromethane, could produce...
That cushion of air in your car tire provides a level of safety and comfort--until it blows. Uniroyal's new NailGuard tires, on the market this month, come with an inner lining made from a sticky rubber compound that automatically reseals the tire after nail punctures up to three-sixteenths of an inch wide. Unlike "run-flat" tires, which cost hundreds of dollars extra, NailGuards cost just $10 more per tire...
...like those for the other shows, scour court filings in search of camera-worthy cases with strong narratives, but Brown achieves extra conflict by pursuing civil actions that spring from criminal cases. "We're not really just small claims," he says. "We will be dealing with some very deep-level raw material." That does help make his show more exciting, but he personally fails to match the intensity of Sheindlin and hence comes off as an imitation...