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Sixty-six days later, when she suffered stomach pains, it was not because of in digestion. She was pregnant again...
...been shot once in the stomach and once in the head, Joseph Barrios, a California cook, seemed to be making a remarkable recovery. The shooting occurred early in October, when robbers held up the restaurant where Barrios worked. Doctors at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital patched up his abdominal flesh wound, removed most of a shattered .22-cal. bullet from his brain, leaving him with only a slight headache and blurred vision. At that point, follow-up X rays sent Barrios into a spin for-dear life...
...news and an instant bestseller. Meat sales slumped throughout the U.S. Within months, Congress passed the nation's first pure-foods law and required more than cursory federal meat inspection. Said Sinclair: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach...
...decide to use the emergency parachute, and decide which way to put it out (it's a little different for different malfunctions). It takes from a second to a second and a half to reach down against a 125 mile an hour wind to find the ripcord on your stomach and pull it and then punch the bag to make sure the chute is knocked out. It then takes two seconds for the emergency chute to become fully open. At this point you are travelling at the terminal velocity for a falling human, 125 miles an hour; you started with...
...then I worked every week, never missed an issue. Even when I was sick, and had to lie in bed on my stomach, and run my typewriter beside my bed, after having had an operation, and all these things, I continued publishing, never missed an issue. A little bit late a couple of times, but never actually missed an issue, in the entire 29 years...