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...morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums. Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves...
Following Easy deep into Europe, Brothers shifts its focus among a vast ensemble that changes as the casualties mount; almost all are portrayed by little-known actors, so the viewer can't intuit who will survive. Grisly and deadpan, Brothers seeks to be a corrective to movies that romanticized war. Yet in a way its unvarnished reality replaces the old glorification of war with a new kind. In the eighth episode, a voice-over by one soldier almost petulantly wonders if noncombatants would ever understand the soldiers' sacrifice: "How could anyone ever know the price paid by soldiers in terror...
...Tuareg folklore, the hills are alive with the sound of jealous rage. Once upon a time, a tall lava plug called Mount Amjer spurned the advances of a volcanic vixen named Mount Tioueyin and refused to leave Mount Tahat, even though Tahat was already married to another mountain. So Tioueyin did what any self-respecting monolith would do: she left town. She moved 150 km southwest and took a suitor, Mount Iherh?, with...
James Reinertsen resigned as CEO of both BIDMC and CareGroup, the umbrella organization of which BIDMC is the largest member, in late July. His resignation came as financial losses at both BIDMC and CareGroup continued to mount. Reinertsen had slowed but not stopped the hospital group’s losses—in the third quarter CareGroup lost $38.9 million...
...family wants JAL and Boeing to pay up. (Boeing had admitted liability for a faulty repair job and paid 80% of the earlier settlements.) But they admit money can't heal all wounds. At the spot on Mount Osutaka where Akihisa Yukawa's body was found, his family fusses over a makeshift memorial. Bayly leaves a cake from his favorite bakery, Diana her second CD. Says Cassie: "Nothing can ever truly compensate us for having to grow up without...