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When we last saw Amanda Knox, she was bundled in a gray jacket against the crisp early winter air of the Italian hilltop city of Perugia, her crystal-blue eyes glancing anxiously toward a photographer's camera. The 20-year-old American exchange student with the Ivory-soap complexion was on her way to jail, charged in the murder of her British roommate, who was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in the flat they shared in the picturesque Umbrian capital...
Surviving Disaster Amanda Ripley's piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 23]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed...
...Amanda Ripley's piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 23]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind...
...Staff writer Amanda C. Lynch can be reached at aclynch@fas.harvard.edu...
...Senior writer Amanda Ripley is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, a new book about human behavior in disasters