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Ask Marilyn®
By Marilyn vos Savant
Published: February 3, 2008
Say you’re in an elevator that begins to fall. What position should you assume to minimize your injuries: standing, crouching or lying flat on the floor?
—Grasen McKay, Albany, N.Y.
In theory, you would lie flat to distribute the force of the impact. But in real life, you can forget about it. You’re never going to be in a falling elevator. The various kinds of ordinary passenger elevators have so many safeguards that they just don’t ever fall.
Yet plenty of elevator injuries occur. Here’s how to avoid the most common ones: If a door is closing, don’t try to force it open. Glance down as you step into or out of the car; it may have stopped a few inches above or below the floor. If you’re in an elevator that gets stuck, hold onto a rail or sit on the floor in case it starts moving again with a jerk. Otherwise, you may fall.
Which of these words does not belong: eastern, eclipse, elapsed, escorts, estates, flowers?
—Leo Tschirhart, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Exercise your powers of insight, readers. The answer appears below.
I’m an aging athlete with so many pulls, strains, sprains and reattachments that something on my body always hurts—except when I am sexually engaged. And it’s not just distraction: I have consciously taken inventory of my latest injuries, and they don’t hurt then. What analgesic does the body dispense during sex, and why hasn’t someone turned it into a pill?
—Michael Burke, San Diego, Calif
When the time is right, the hormone oxytocin surges 500 percent. This causes the release of endorphins—hormones that diminish pain and make just about any partner look good.
That’s fine, but the word “endorphin” comes from the word “morphine.” You don’t want a bottle of addictive stuff in your medicine cabinet unless your doctor prescribes it.
Which has more advertising: radio or television?
—M.M. Hudson, Naches, Wash.
TV averages more ads per hour: about 15 minutes vs. 10 minutes for radio. Ads may seem longer on the radio because you have no visual stimulation for distraction. |
