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...happens dozens of times a day: trains traveling in opposite directions over the same short stretch of track, carefully diverted from disaster by red and green signals. Last week one such routine maneuver went tragically awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck...
Amtrak Veteran Rodney Rosemond had been on the signal-tower job for only two weeks. Rosemond, who has been suspended, may have failed to throw the red signal that would have told the Zip's engineer to stop and wait for the Shoreliner to pass...
...satirical targets in this collection of stories and sketches may seem like the same old contemporary lemons, but look again. Max Apple (The Oranging of America, Zip) knows there is more than one way to make lemonade - sometimes sweet, sometimes astringent, always bracing. Organ transplants? In the bizarre courtroom drama of the title piece, the author's vital parts try to protect themselves against being traded to another body by demanding the right to bargain as free agents. The video-electronic revolution...
...general, bicyclists seem to treat stoplights the way drivers do at 3:30 on a Wednesday morning, observing their warning is considered entirely optional. The standard practice is to slow slightly before the intersection, look quickly, and then zip across. Usually it isn't a big deal but like anything else it leads to bad habits and the problems arise when bicyclists begin challenging drivers, in the same way pedestrians do when crossing the Square. Everyone fights the cars, but this does not make the practice any less stupid...
...days later one remembers only one-third of what one has learned. There is a small but significant exception to this easy generalization about how little one remembers. It is called over-learning, and it takes place when you use the same information repeatedly: e.g., your phone number, a zip code, your Harvard ID, your name, etc. Even at times of stress this information is available...