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If you are standing, your heart is roughly four feet above your feet, so there’s a lot of gravity to overcome on the return trip. Imagine squeezing a pump the size of a grapefruit with enough force to move a fluid four feet up a tube. Now do that again once every second or so, around the clock, unceasingly, for decades, and see if you don’t feel a bit tired.

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Bill Bryson

A common type of truck crash involves rear-end collisions, where a distracted truck driver fails to stop and runs into stopped traffic. These crashes made up 19% (or 964 total) of all fatal crashes in the US in 2019. Furthermore, 33% of all work zone (where traffic is commonly stopped) fatal crashes involved at least one large truck.

Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill

Brian Goggin

A newly released national survey suggests the percent of adults who have used illicit drugs increased to 12.8 percent in 2022, up from 7.8 in 2001, though still below European averages.

Once Hailed for Decriminalizing Drugs, Portugal Is Now Having Doubts

Anthony Faiola and Catarina Fernandes Martins

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