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Amid the grim, impersonal regularity of natural disasters, we are often unmoved by statistics. It is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home. In the devastated town of Duzce, a British rescuer wedged deep in a narrow crevice heard a tap-tap-tap so close he could almost touch whoever was making the sound. Then an aftershock cascaded masonry through the 30-ft. tunnel as the rescuers slithered back out. When they took another route and reached the spot where the tapping had been heard, two dead bodies lay there. "It hurts when it ends like this," team...
That will bring no consolation to the families of the dead. Nor will survivors find it easy to remake their lives amid the country's troubled economy and embattled government. Yet hardest of all for the traumatized people of Turkey may be regaining the simplest of faiths: trust in the stability of the ground beneath their feet...
Mays is an articulate spokesman for a new generation of industrial artists who aim to bring us what we want rather than products that are prisoners of the engineering and manufacturing departments. "Cars have become appliances instead of something you lust after," complains Mays. "We've been designing from the inside out--hawking sheet metal to consumers instead of considering their wants and aspirations and desires, and now they're looking for someone to help them...
...there were still a British Empire, one could imagine Hugh Grant bestriding one of its far-flung ramparts, trying to bring order to unruliness. Mostly that would be a matter of self-deprecating humor, romantic chivalry, honorable business dealings, and, of course, irresistibly floppy hair...
Back-to-school day is supposed to bring relief for exhausted parents, but for thousands in Cleveland it is bringing only anxiety. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the city?s school voucher program, which had allowed as many as 5 percent of Cleveland?s students to attend private or parochial schools at taxpayers? expense. The reason? The voucher program, said the judge, has the "primary effect of advancing religion" (80 percent of the city?s vouchers are used in religious schools). Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ordered the program halted until a trial determines whether it violates the constitutional...