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...what the big numbers and the gaudy pageantry hide is how close the sport came to a total crack-up last year, and just how rickety it remains. At times over the past few years, Formula One has looked as ungovernable as California: big teams quit, and more threatened to do so; the financial industry canceled its lifeblood sponsorship almost en masse; track attendance is down; and scandals have tarnished everyone from a world champ to the former head of motor sport itself. Bernie Ecclestone, the septuagenarian who is usually described as F1's principal stakeholder (a description that doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Turbulent Times of Formula One | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...Amnesty report comes on the heels of an investigation in California that found that maternal deaths have tripled there in recent years, as well as a maternal-mortality alert issued in January by the Joint Commission, a group that accredits hospitals and other medical organizations, which noted that common preventable errors included failure to control blood pressure in hypertensive women and failure to pay attention to vital signs after C-sections. And just this week, a panel of medical experts at a conference held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recommended that physicians' organizations revisit policies that prevent women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Many Women Dying in U.S. While Having Babies | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...year's Feb. 14 Fox broadcast of the Daytona 500 was the lowest-rated Great American Race since 1991. "You can't watch these races without seeing swaths of empty seats in the superspeedways," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California. (See the photo-essay "A Steam-Powered Car Sets a Land Speed Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Ratings Woes Making NASCAR Too Reckless? | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

...sure you want to know about this?” Or, “So that’s kind of what I thought when I got there, in 3,000 words or less.” Why she’s still in California, even though she grew up in New York: “I’m being held hostage here by my husband who adores the climate...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard That They Knew | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Jody Cukier Siegler’s daughter died in an accident. She was 13 years old. It happened in California...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard That They Knew | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

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