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Trailed by a throng of ecstatic teammates, co-captain Jeremy Lin leapt and ran up the wall at the near end of Lavietes Pavilion. It was an appropriate celebration for Harvard’s superhero, who had just come up huge in the clutch yet again...
Taking the inbound pass with time ticking away, Lin sprinted down the floor and was bumped near the half-court line. Unfazed, he took a couple more steps inside the marker and ran into a Tribe defender, who sent him tumbling to the ground—but not before Lin let fly with one of the biggest and most improbable shots of his career...
...American folktale: a miraculous emergency landing into the Hudson river, with Captain Chesley Sullenberger the hero in the cockpit. But journalist William Langewiesche takes a different view of the aborted Jan. 15 flight, which Sullenberger guided safely into the water after the Airbus 320 struck a flock of geese near LaGuardia Airport and lost all power. A Vanity Fair correspondent and former professional pilot, Langewiesche has written the most detailed account yet of the short flight, Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson. He spoke with TIME about the near disaster, the media's role...
...Near Silence from the White House Obama's choice to stay out of the debate over the specifics of health reform has complicated the discussion of many issues, but particularly the question of how to handle abortion coverage. When Obama did speak publicly, his rhetoric was designed to reassure the pro-life community. But it wasn't matched by language in the bills his Democratic congressional colleagues were drafting. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...
...Military Relations Over the past 10 years, military incidents have shown the greatest potential for sending Sino-U.S. relations into an unanticipated tailspin. The U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the collision of a U.S. spy plane with a Chinese fighter near China's southern Hainan Island in 2001 both sharply increased tensions between the two sides. This March, Chinese vessels confronted a U.S. Navy surveillance ship that was surveying an area about 75 miles off Hainan, an area many nations consider international waters but China claims as part of its exclusive economic zone...