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On land, if you rose to the top of a five-hundred-foot eminence—Cologne Cathedral or the Washington Monument, say—the change in pressure would be so slight as to be indiscernible. At the same depth underwater, however, your veins would collapse and your lungs would compress to the approximate dimensions of a Coke can.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Free fares doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have a bus to ride. It won’t lure away motorists who are already willing to pay premium if the bus doesn’t come for 30 minutes. Free fares should not come at the cost of reduced service.
Free Fares vs. More Service
Darrell Owens
The school board deemed that Galarza and other Mexican Americans were white and thus had to attend white schools; it expelled her from her chosen school.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
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