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Williams is quick to note that not all the lenders involved in the Miami Gardens disaster were disreputable - and he acknowledges that "there were too many folks here who were totally irresponsible as buyers and shouldn't be able to take advantage of this process." He agrees, for example, with...
Senior writer Amanda Ripley's new book The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, is about human behavior in catastrophes.
The language was dry, understated, yet painfully clear. What caused the space shuttle Challenger to explode last Jan. 28, killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol...
For those who have seen it, Pripyat is a place of silence, devoid of life. The only movement that suggests human habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40...
Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet...