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HANNAH CAMPBELL-PEGG, an Australian luger, calling Vancouver's Olympic course unsafe just a day before Georgia's Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was killed in a high-speed crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Belgium's worst railway crash since 1954, a commuter train sped through a red signal and hit an oncoming locomotive on Feb. 15, killing 18 people and injuring more than 100. While investigators have not yet determined the cause of the crash, which happened outside the capital, rail workers and train drivers quickly went on strike to protest poor working conditions that may have led to the collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Vancouver Olympics could not have started on a more somber note. On Feb. 12, a fateful Friday that broke the hearts of those who strongly believe in, or genuinely scoff at, the so-called Olympic ideal - faster, higher, stronger - Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a horrific crash during a training run. The opening ceremonies, held later that evening, were tainted. Fingers were pointed. It was a tragedy that will forever question the intelligence of selling outrageous risk as global sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vancouver Olympics Come Full Circle | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...still pondering whether you'd rather just give up and float or gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon so you don't have to look at your painfully empty blocking form ever again. Sound familiar? Well, we’re here to give you a crash course in avoiding tearful/obnoxious/existentially-disconcerting blocking day drama...

Author: By Sara Joe Wolansky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market: How to Banish Blocking Drama | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

Reality is more than a TV genre now. It's the burgeoning career field that led Richard Heene to perpetrate the Balloon Boy hoax, and Tareq and Michaele Salahi to crash a White House dinner, Bravo TV cameras in tow. It's the content mill for the cable-tabloid-blog machine, employing human punch lines like Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced governor turned contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. It's everywhere. When Scott Brown won an upset Senate victory in Massachusetts, he was joined onstage by his daughter Ayla, an American Idol semifinalist from Season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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