But it looks like the weight of events may finally crush resistance from the fossils at Shell.

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The IIHS estimates that such roofs reduce the risk of serious and fatal injury in single-vehicle rollovers by about 50 percent compared with those that merely meet the federal minimum requirement for crush resistance.

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Crush-resistance was next, which entailed the application of 180 pounds worth of journalist to the closed lid of both notebooks.

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