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...Surviving Disaster Amanda Ripley's piece about surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 9]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed...
...Ripley, a senior writer at TIME, covers homeland security and risk. This article is adapted from The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why. ? 2008 by Amanda Ripley. To be published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House Inc. On sale June...
...Even as a producer, he did big movies with Anthony Minghella like The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain. Did you ever try to get him to go the more independent route...
...other words, you would have to swim in the ocean 41,000 times a year (or 112 times a day, or seven times every waking hour) before swimming in shark habitats became as dangerous as driving your car a single time. As my colleague Amanda Ripley points out in her forthcoming book The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, humans are kicking ass in the shark-human war: we kill at least 26 million of them every year, and they kill about...
...sharks, which is why it is so striking that director and British Film Institute ex-chairman Anthony Minghella was consistently praised by colleagues for his "sweetness." That quality, along with his gift for the edgy, sweeping story, helped Minghella make powerful, critically acclaimed films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, which earned him an Oscar nomination for writing; Cold Mountain; and 1996's The English Patient, which won nine Academy Awards, among them Best Director for Minghella. The filmmaker, who had just finished shooting The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, died suddenly of a hemorrhage following surgery...