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...backbench's call. "Whack it through, mate," shouts Dore. Just before second deadline he notices a name spelled inconsistently in a story. "Sorry to wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within minutes the story's refiled...
...spectacular end to a 4.5-billion-year journey. Formed at the same time as the planets of our solar system, the extraterrestrial missile originally lay at the core of a small asteroid. Then, some time in its voyage through the silent vacuum of space, a chance collision with another asteroid shattered it, sending this fragment hurtling toward its meeting with Earth 300,000 years...
...southern Africa; some rural areas have seen a heartbreaking 11-fold jump in mortality. "The death rates from malaria are as high as those from HIV," says Dr. Christa Hook, coordinator of the malaria working group for Doctors Without Borders. "In many ways, it's a kind of silent Holocaust...
...look like a clever new way of turning over fields?an agricultural innovation, perhaps, meant to increase crop yields. But the locals know the truth. Buried under the pyramids, which now number in the thousands, are their mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters and cousins, all victims of AIDS. Like silent sentries, the dirt graves are a testament to China's worst-kept secret...
Ducey, who did not sign the letter and would not comment on Weylman’s departure, has remained silent through much of the reorganization process, and left his post without fanfare...