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...resident took her exhausted plea literally and instructed a nurse to prepare an injection of morphine, "enough, I thought, to do the job." Then, as a woman visitor held Debbie's hand, "I injected the morphine intravenously and watched to see if my calculations on its effects would be correct." Within minutes the 20-year- old woman was dead...
...aggressiveness almost got him into trouble. Based on unconfirmed reports from the hospital, Rather told his bosses in New York City that Kennedy had died, leading CBS radio to report the news more than half an hour before the official announcement was made. The bulletin turned out to be correct, much to Rather's relief, and he covered himself with glory as coordinator of CBS's Dallas coverage during the assassination aftermath...
...that in the real universe the object at the heart of a black hole would be small (but not dimensionless) and extremely dense (but not infinitely so). Enter Hawking. While still a graduate student, he and Mathematician Roger Penrose developed new techniques proving mathematically that if general relativity is correct down to the smallest scale, singularities must exist. Hawking went on to demonstrate -- again, if general relativity is correct -- that the entire universe must have sprung from a singularity. As he wrote in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, "There is a singularity in our past...
...killing seven crew members and shutting down the U.S. manned space program. Pressures to launch had led to what the Rogers commission later called NASA's "silent safety program," in which defects were overlooked and engineering cautions brushed aside. Yet as NASA and its many contractors now rush to correct the ! shuttle's potentially fatal weaknesses and resume launches by July, there are signs that the lesson of the Challenger tragedy has not been wholly heeded...
...network who spoke up about lax safety practices sometimes ran into a "shoot-the-messen ger syndrome" in which their complaints were ignored and they were harshly criticized. Several such whistle-blowers have told TIME that when they pointed out glaring violations of safety procedures, nothing was done to correct the problems. Instead, they contend, they were harassed, demoted or fired. Some say they were even threatened by unidentified letter writers and telephone callers...