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...geese on Jan. 15 to its safe splashdown in the Hudson. For Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole, it took an hour and a half of radio silence to become national punching bags. After their Northwest Airlines flight shot past its Minneapolis destination at 37,000 ft., air-traffic controllers feared the worst: A hijacking? A flight-deck catastrophe? After 91 minutes, the pilots resurfaced, saying they'd been absorbed in their laptops, reviewing a new crew schedule. On Oct. 27 the FAA revoked their licenses; commercial flying is a game with no room for error...
...five markets from X city and we'll have one team doing it, and we'll save all this money,'" he says. "Doesn't work. Listeners want to talk about the mayor, the new light rail that's going in, the local sports teams." Wilson acquired the rights to air the games of three local sports teams for his FM sports channel. According to Arbitron, it has already started to poach listeners from the local AM sports channel...
...ultimate refinement of a Mediterranean flavored-ice tradition that supposedly dates back to the ancient Egyptians. In the past half-century, Italians have designed machines - engineered and produced in the same region as Ferraris and Lamborghinis - that can produce ever tinier crystals of ice, allowing for less water, less air and more taste. (See pictures of Gelato University...
...been almost three decades since the last Gorky retrospective, the big new show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was worth the wait. Organized by Michael R. Taylor, the museum's curator of modern art, it has final galleries so triumphant, you want to throw your hat in the air, even though you know - and how could you forget? - that this is a story that will end where it began, in darkness. (Watch TIME's video about Arshile Gorky...
...most of his last years, Gorky went from strength to strength, making lush, abundant pictures like The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, his 1944 masterpiece in which pools of color supply a world where turbulent figures claw the air. But once the bad times began, they never quit. In 1946 a fire in his Connecticut studio destroyed more than 20 paintings. Then came rectal cancer and a car accident that left his painting arm temporarily immobilized. Then his wife left him, taking the kids. In despair and constant pain, he hanged himself. He was only 46 - a short life...