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Lessons from Flight 253 The recent attempted attack on Flight 253 gave me a feeling of déjà vu [Jan. 11]. The information about the suspect was available; U.S. agencies didn't coordinate. Wasn't the Department of Homeland Security created precisely to prevent such situations? Adam Brostow Emmaus...
...certainly a tragedy, yet more people are killed on our highways each month or two than were killed on that day. One deadly airplane crash is about a day's worth of highway fatalities. Maybe the press should cover highway safety more and rare incidents less. We'd all be safer. Bill Koch Pittsburgh...
When he died in 1961 - at 51 years of age, after surgery for a brain tumor - Saarinen was just arriving at the peak of his fame and success. He'd been on the cover of TIME, he had A-list clients, and his streamlined furniture for Knoll was so of the moment that Coca-Cola used his Womb chair in a magazine ad showing an exhausted Santa Claus slumped in it. (See TIME's video "The Legacy and Return of Architect Eero Saarinen...
...Forget 3-D, CGI and performance capture. The only special effects the new, fact-based drama Extraordinary Measures needs are Brendan Fraser's big watery eyes. They gaze at a wheelchair-bound child and fill helplessly with sympathy, empathy, pathos. They glint with a steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...
...sister's digs about my not being around more - and I didn't hear her rising desperation. It wasn't until my mom's funeral, watching my dad and sister cling to each other and weep, that I got a hint of their long ordeal - and how badly I'd screwed...