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...well-known pilot and writer of the best-selling books Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince, has been one of aviation's great mysteries since he disappeared on July 31, 1944, after being sent to observe German troop movements. A serial number found on a fragment of the underwater wreck confirmed the plane was Saint-Exup...
...Lees always write together, by a process remarkably similar to preparing a dish. One brother begins a piece, then passes the fragment to the other by e-mail. The other modifies, adds and sends it back. Sometimes one is writing in New York while the other is in South Carolina taking orders for peanuts. Even when they are in the same city—or even the same apartment—the brothers still do their collaboration via e-mail...
Four days later, after Gail Knisley, 62, was killed by a gunshot while riding in a car near that same strip of highway, Cable called the police. They matched the fragment in his van to the bullet that killed her. Authorities in Ohio last week said 14 recent shootings in the area were linked, five of them through ballistic evidence. All were clustered in a sevenmile patch of Interstate 270, a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August...
...simple point he was making was that it’s not good to fragment things,” the council member said. “He used the analogy of carving at the joint as opposed to cutting at the bone...
...program, as the Senate bill permits, it could be regulated at some future time, even though the bill does not provide for that now. To close off that possibility altogether, the House bill calls for a drug benefit to be administered only through multiple private insurance companies. That would fragment and privatize drug coverage so thoroughly that it could never be regulated like the rest of the Medicare program...