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Almost a week after a Minneapolis bridge unexpectedly collapsed, National Transportation Safety Board investigators are struggling to determine the catastrophe's cause. They are considering factors such as wear and tear, weather, or the weight of a construction project taking place at the time that closed half of the bridge...
That's for money. For art (a book he's assembling) he takes grainy monochrome shots of scrawny old men in welfare hotels. Or he'll go to a quiet park to snap pictures of pigeons... or of that couple kissing furtively 50 yards away. The woman in the couple...
In the days after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse claimed the lives of at least five people and injured more than 100, rescue divers are taking every precaution to make sure they don't join the tally of victims of the greatest disaster in modern Minnesota history. Shattered glass, gasoline...
In thinking about Katrina, most Americans consider the disaster to have been a random event, a force of nature that couldn't be controlled or predicted. I know I did. But two years after Katrina drowned New Orleans, I'm persuaded that what happened in the Big Easy was less...
In early May, as the second anniversary of the storm was approaching, the managing editors of a number of Time Inc. magazines--including TIME, FORTUNE, PEOPLE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and ESSENCE--all led by editor-in-chief John Huey, made a trip to New Orleans. I admit that before going, I...