Truck drivers call those plastic, orange safety barrels on the road Schneider eggs, after the orange Schneider trucks.
Sylvester Stallone was once a dorm bouncer at a girl’s boarding school in Switzerland.
To produce one pair of regular cotton jeans takes three-fourths of a pound of fertilizers and pesticides. Each T-shirt takes one-third of a pound. The farming of organic fibers, by contrast, releases less CO2 into the air and uses 50% less energy.
The Los Angeles Police Department plans to shorten high-speed car chases by tracking fleeing vehicles with adhesive SPS tags fired by laser-guided launchers.
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
This article appears in January 19 • 2007.