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The extreme size of tractor-trailers means that they also have an extremely large stopping distance once the brakes are applied. Estimates show that a tractor-trailer moving at 60 mph has a typical stopping distance of 310 feet (more than a football field) once brakes are applied.
Victims and Elected Officials Fight for Truck Safety on Capitol Hill
Brian Goggin
By 2011, black teachers no longer were a majority in D.C. schools; just eight years before, they had comprised 77 percent of the teaching force.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Saltationists (the word comes from the Latin for “leap”) couldn’t accept that complicated organs could ever emerge in slow stages. What good, after all, is one-tenth of a wing or half an eye? Such organs, they thought, only made sense if they appeared in a finished state.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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