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Air France Flight 447: Can the Crash Be Solved Without the Black Box? - TIME
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As a French nuclear submarine arrived off the coast of Brazil to join the effort to locate the black box from Air France Flight 447 on Thursday, aviation experts stressed the necessity of recovering those cockpit recorders in order to learn what exactly brought down the Airbus A330 and the 228 people on board. In past inquiries into airline disasters, investigators have been able to figure out the cause by piecing together clues from the wreckage itself, sometimes without information from the black box. But after 10 days of searching, the authorities combing what's believed to be Flight 447's crash site, some 700 miles (1,125 km) out to sea, have come up with only 41 bodies and relatively little of the plane's wreckage. And that, experts say, is not nearly enough.
Book Tracks 'Last Chance' for Texas Youths : NPR
John Hubner's Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth, includes a profile of Antonio Alvarado. Hubner and Alvarado speak with Scott Simon.
Pinto Madness | Mother Jones
A Mother Jones Classic: For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.
As a side note, my first car (in 1977) was a 1971 Ford Pinto. Fortunately the gas tank never exploded in the 3 accidents I was in while driving this car...
Katie Couric: Aboard A C-17 To Turkey
Flying to an American airbase in Incirlik, Turkey from Kabul in a C-17 cargo plane, a massive, lumbering aircraft which is like traveling in a Beacon's moving van in the sky, almost as long as a city block. Rather than troops and equipment it's carrying the Defense Secretary's staffers and policy experts and the dozen or so members of the media who've been following him around all week
A Journey Through Darkness - My Life With Chronic Depression - NYTimes.com
DEPRESSION — THE THICK BLACK paste of it, the muck of bleakness — was nothing new to me. I had done battle with it in some way or other since childhood. It is an affliction that often starts young and goes unheeded — younger than would seem possible, as if in exiting the womb I was enveloped in a gray and itchy wool blanket instead of a soft, pastel-colored bunting. Perhaps I am overstating the case; I don’t think I actually began as a melancholy baby, if I am to go by photos of me, in which I seem impish, with sparkly eyes and a full smile. All the same, who knows but that I was already adopting the mask of all-rightness that every depressed person learns to wear in order to navigate the world?
Why Are Black Folks Leaving San Fran?
“San Francisco is beautiful. You shouldn’t have to be upper-middle class to be a part of that."
The Growing Push for "Mad Pride" | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com
We don't want to be normal," Will Hall tells me. The 43-year-old has been diagnosed as schizophrenic, and doctors have prescribed antipsychotic medication for him. But Hall would rather value his mentally extreme states than try to suppress them, so he doesn't take his meds. Instead, he practices yoga and avoids coffee and sugar. He is delicate and thin, with dark plum polish on his fingernails and black fashion sneakers on his feet, his half Native American ancestry evident in his dark hair and dark eyes. Cultivated and charismatic, he is also unusually energetic, so much so that he seems to be vibrating even when sitting still.
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Embracing "mental diversity" is one thing, but questioning the need for medication in today's pill-popping world is controversial—and there have been instances in which those who experience mental extremes harm themselves or others. Icaristas argue that some of the severely mentally ill may avoid taking medication, because for some the drugs don't seem to help, yet produce difficult side effects. And while some side effects like cognitive impairment are surely debilitating, others are more subtle, such as the vague feeling that people are not themselves. Icaristas call themselves "pro-choice" about meds—some do take their drugs, but others refuse.
For Obama, Helping Gaza Is Harder Than It Looks - TIME
President Barack Obama has been busy working on foreign policy in recent weeks, chairing meetings with his national-security principals; plotting his approach to Iraq, Iran and North Korea; and consulting at weekly private sessions with Secretary of State
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even Wall Street quants—have received the Nobel in economics before, and Li's work on measuring risk has had more i
ABC News: America's Top 15 Emptiest Cities
For decades, Las Vegas, ripe with new construction and economic development, burgeoned into a shimmering urban carnival. Detroit, once the fulcrum of American industry, sagged and rusted under its own weight.
These days, it's the worst of times for both.
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