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Cosby also leaves behind his sister, Shenita, who flew in from Atlanta upon hearing the news, and his longtime girlfriend whom he met in college...
...them could be your Uncle Oliver or Aunt Florence, living lives innocent of fame until faced with a sudden test. Not much chance to prepare, other than a lifetime spent becoming themselves. Sully had 19,000 hours of flight time; he flew gliders as a hobby, had two master's degrees, studied crisis psychology to learn how to keep a crew on task in an emergency. "Me and my crew, we were just doing our job," he told the President, who had called to congratulate...
Once, when he was in college, William F. Buckley Jr. flew an airplane from Boston to New Haven, Conn., at night after a total of an hour and a half of flight training. Buckley also smoked, drank, ate peanut-butter-and-bacon sandwiches and took pills by the fistful. He was a reckless sailor who crossed three oceans--his terrified crews nicknamed him Captain Crunch. He abominated seat belts, and in his later life he developed the unnerving habit of urinating out the open doors of cars going at full speed. Buckley, an icon of the modern conservative movement, died...
...bride's dress, was swiftly carried off by riot police. One woman, who was surrounded by cameras, was grabbed by riot police as she was giving interviews, her shirt torn on the way to the police bus. Peter Tatchell, a British gay-rights activist, flew to Moscow for the event. He was speaking to reporters before he too was arrested. "This shows Russian people are not free," he told reporters...
...virus can stay latent for days and still be infectious. The man flew to Hong Kong, where he was later diagnosed with the disease. Hong Kong officials then quarantined about 300 guests in the hotel where the man was staying. On the mainland, meanwhile, authorities launched a search for anyone who may have come in contact with the country's first swine flu patient. By 5 p.m. on May 3, more than 100 passengers on the same China Eastern Airlines flight to Hong Kong had been located in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and put under seven-day medical...