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...photographed by the media. These types of bans arise more out of political considerations than a concern for the honor of the dead. During the Vietnam War, photographs of military caskets proved politically dangerous to war supporters as they allowed the public to view and understand the mortal realities of combat. According to USA Today, the term “Dover Test,” for the Air Force base in Dover, Del., where the coffins arrived, came to indicate a test of the public’s tolerance for rising casualties in Vietnam. The modern ban came...
...people to the hospital as needed. As we pulled out of Weehawken my history kicked in and I recalled it was the site of the famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804. Thankfully I left town in better condition than Mr. Hamilton, who died of a mortal wound the next day! I stayed with my sister on Long Island that evening, then flew home the next...
...into concealment by the necessity to avoid persecution in a time when their writings challenged the prevailing religious or political norms. The authorities of the Tudor and the Stuart eras, failing to uncover these anonymous authors, in turn executed printers.By the 18th century, anonymity became less a matter of mortal safety and more a strategy for marketing. Readers and reviewers were left to speculate on the gender and identity for the author. Jonathan Swift, author of “Gulliver’s Travels,” for instance, went to rather elaborate means to preserve his secrecy. He arranged...
...have been friends forever, but now they belong to opposing factions in the Camorra Mob. "I'm telling you," one warns the other, "if you don't change sides, we might kill you. Or you might kill us. Because we're at war. People are dying every day." The mortal rivals give each other a final farewell kiss on the cheek; they're boys of about...
...Wang then told his volunteers to do what few mortal people could do: think about something else. For the next 40 minutes, while the PET scanner hummed, the subjects fought to close their minds to the thoughts of food in any way they could, though they were required to keep their eyes open. "We tried to make it a real-life experience," says Wang. "It's like being in a buffet line, only it lasts a lot longer." (See the top 10 food trends...