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...news story that covered Woods’s health when he got into a late-night car accident outside his home in Windermere, Fla., quickly turned into speculation about his family and personal life. While some of the details have been blurred surrounding the aftermath of crash, the involvement of alcohol and Woods’s alleged affairs have opened up the Pandora’s box of Woods’s normally private life...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tiger Trap | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...Pilot Captain Mark (Pitbull) McDowell, 26, and weapons-systems officer Captain Thomas (Lag) Gramith, 27, died in the first crash of an Air Force fighter in Afghanistan since the war began more than eight years ago. Coming near the end of a four-hour combat flight, the crash appears to have been the result of a series of steps, each insignificant in and of itself, but which in combination created a cascade of disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind an Afghanistan Plane Crash: Missed Signals | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind an Afghanistan Plane Crash: Missed Signals | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...wasn’t a “Flat Tire” nor a broken “Hash Pipe,” but rather an unfortunate patch of ice. An untimely crash on Sunday left disappointed Bostonians without a sweet Weezer concert to liven up their December...

Author: By Peter L. Knudson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Say It Ain't So... | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...HOUBEN, a Belgian man who was mistakenly presumed to be in a coma for 23 years after becoming paralyzed in a car crash. A recent journal article revealed that doctors, using new scanning techniques, discovered in 2006 that Houben, who could not speak, had normal brain function. He now communicates using a special keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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