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Yeager's practical approach to death may have its origins in his West Virginia childhood. Not long after six-year-old Brother Roy accidentally killed his baby sister with a shotgun, Yeager's father sat the boys down and said simply, "I want to show you how to safely handle firearms." This matter-of-factness fits right in with the airman's cocky stoicism. Violent death may be inevitable, but problem solving goes on until the moment of impact. There is also a sixth sense of machinery that Yeager calls his "knowledgeable feel," his love of engines and valves...
...according to police. A bus driver in Shandong province was executed earlier this month for slashing 24 kids in September; last month, a teacher in Hunan province was arrested for killing four students and wounding 12; two weeks later a man in Beijing was arrested for killing a six-year-old and stuffing him into the school's washing machine. The violence stalking the land of one-child families is not confined to the lower grades. In April, a college student named Ma Jiajue hacked four classmates to death after an all-night poker game. Ma said...
...health catastrophe approaching the "Spanish flu" pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 40 million people. But by week's end, health officials were relieved to discover that the disease had apparently failed to spread beyond the small family cluster. (Somsak's wife and six-year-old son were both quarantined in a provincial hospital with bird-flu symptoms, and his son has recovered.) The human-to-human transmission "is a nonsustained, inefficient, dead-end street," says Dr. Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's influenza team. By the weekend, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...Taste Infraction? Serena Williams' selection of tennis apparel is completely appalling and a disgrace to the sport [Sept. 13]. Most of what she wears looks as though she has rummaged through the clothing rack at a prostitute's yard sale. I didn't even allow my six-year-old daughter to watch women's tennis at the U.S. Open because of that. What's next?men wearing spandex and tube tops? I respect Williams' abilities as a tennis player. She is phenomenal. But does her excellence as a player give her a free pass to desecrate the sport with...
...last week, as Guo spent a Wednesday afternoon grimly slicing through the water to prepare for an upcoming meet in Shanghai. She plunged into the pool over and over, surfacing only to hear terse criticism from her usually upbeat coach. A few meters from where Guo was practicing, six-year-old girls from the city tossed themselves off the vertiginous diving platform, their tiny bodies tumbling through the air at up to 60 km/h. The girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit with high-cut legs...