Word: accidental
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DIED "I got addicted," Karine Ruby, 31, once said of her passion for snowboarding, which she took up at age 11. The Frenchwoman, who won six world championships and an Olympic gold medal, died in a climbing accident on France's Mont Blanc May 29.
"Everyone knew what happened - there were photos of the Concorde on fire and blowing up - but examination of the remains allowed investigators to trace the entire sequence of events back to the accident's smoking gun," says Jean Guerry, a former pilot and current assistant director of the Bourget Air...
Two Harvard math majors, Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith, co-founded Tagged in 2004. I called them up, wanting to know why they're using Harvard math degrees to annoy the piss out of people. Tseng, the CEO, was unavailable, but Schleier-Smith, the chief technology officer, agreed to...
Like an impulsive starlet, California may find it harder to be cast as the nation's trendsetter if she can't decide what the trend should be in the first place. The state's supreme court ruled last year that California's constitutional right to marry extended to same-sex...
Some people, like Gandy, take these courses for therapeutic, rather than practical, reasons. "It's really nice to have someplace to go to forget about all that other stuff," says Gandy, referring to her layoff and search for another full-time job. Others play tunes for the extra income. Tony...