How to Build a Better Bridge
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In 1989, in the midst of a windstorm, Leslie Pluhar was driving across the Mackinac Bridge, which joins the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of the state of Michigan. Apparently concerned by the weather, she stopped her tiny Yugo on the bridge – a fatal mistake, for the car was caught by the gale and thrown 150 feet into the strait below.
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