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In 1984, the middle span of a bridge over a river on I-95 between New York and Boston collapsed near midnight, extinguishing the lights along the highway for miles leading up to a bridge. Without the usual light, cars hurtled off the last intact span into the black waters below, until the driver of a semi-trailer saw the gap, squealed to a stop, and purposely jackknifed his truck to block the way.
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Wheaton, B. (1997). The Nature of Chronic Stress. In: Gottlieb, B.H. (eds) Coping with Chronic Stress. The Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9862-3_2
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