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To Murphy, that’s no accident.
There was that little Cypriot accident on August 14 that left 121 dead near Athens. Two days later a double engine failure above Venezuela resulted in 160 deaths; nine days later an emergency landing in Peru killed 40, making August the deadliest month for airplane crashes since May 2002. Some...
Like many other successful small companies, Spira started by accident. In 1999 David Krafsur, an aerospace engineer living in Knoxville, Tenn., was thinking of ways to cushion his treadmill when he saw compact wave springs featured in a trade magazine. He figured the tiny springs could fit in shoes instead...
Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a flat-out thriller, accurately described by its narrator-hero on the opening page as "quite genuinely exciting and superficial." Nicholas Halloway, 34, a bland, likable Manhattan securities analyst, is the sole survivor of a bizarre industrial accident that has rendered him utterly transparent...
There were other ties, ones that stayed strong beneath the surface tension. Grief could be shared, understood. When he was 15, Bono's mother died from the effects of a stroke she suffered at his grandfather's funeral. Mullen lost his mother in a traffic accident in 1978. "The thing...