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...wants a union, founded on high ideals of liberty and justice for all, to be maintained only by force of arms or weight of law? I wouldn't make it easy for a state to unfasten itself; we should require that a two-thirds majority of voters agree. But a Zogby poll last summer found that 1 in 5 Americans thinks states and regions should have the right to leave, which means that the revolutionary DNA of 234 years ago still persists in our bloodstream. Maybe every couple of hundred years, the country should have the debate, just to keep...
...angle, almost vertically," she recalled. "Soon there were two or three very sharp impacts, and seats and cushions all around me came tumbling down on me. I was covered with seats, and I couldn't move. I suffered a piercing pain in my stomach. Finally, I was able to unfasten my seatbelt, but I found myself trapped between seats, and I could not move...
...misused in more than 70% of the studied cases. The high-tech TattleTale Smart Car Seat ($170 to $230; smartchild seat.com employs sensors to check whether the seat is installed correctly and provides verbal confirmation ("Buckle fastened, vehicle belt tight") when it is. If your little Houdini likes to unfasten a restraint now and again, you might hear, "Warning: child climbing out." The seat's batteries run for up to four years, but don't worry about remembering to change them. When they run low, the TattleTale will tell you. --By Wilson Rothman
...Unfasten your seatbelts and welcome to the club," Jones said, congratulating the class on their approaching Commencement. "But the question you have to answer is 'What are going...
...kept a diary of everything. How they tormented him with talk that he had Parkinson's disease and how Dr. Obukhov brought him a book on Parkinsonism and said he had got the disease from his hunger strikes, adding, "You will become a total invalid, unable to unfasten your own trousers." Judging from what Andrei told me and the symptoms that partly remain (involuntary jaw movements), I think he suffered a stroke or a severe cerebral vascular spasm because of force- feeding or inoculations...