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This comes up in Once and Again when Eli starts failing two subjects at school because Rick doesn't make the teen-ager buckle down on the nights he sleeps at Rick's house.
, home to police officers and firemen; to Broken Arrow, Okla., on the buckle of the Bible Belt.
The story is accompanied by a box of tips, including: always buckle up (hitting that partition with your head is a leading cause of passenger injuries) and always request a receipt (most receipts give the cab's number).
Oh, and definitely buckle your seat belt.
Cell growth continues beyond this point however forcing the fiber shaft to supercoil into a free standing helix that contracts into a ball-like form [ 6 ] . Filaments that grow on the surface of a ball can buckle and initiate the outgrowth of fibers that remain anchored to the ball surface [ 7 ] . These too supercoil when they reach a critical length or when they encounter an external impediment to their twisting.