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Exhausted when I got home, I fell asleep early. It was July 17. "There's been another crash. It doesn't look good," I heard my husband say through my fog of sleep. "It crashed into the ocean." I got up and followed him to the television. TWA Flight 800 had just plummeted into the Atlantic in a ball of flames off Long Island, and it looked like hundreds of passengers were dead. A familiar, wrenching dread tugged at me. Echoes of ValuJet questions bounced around my head. Had the TWA jet crashed because an incompetent mechanic missed something? Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLYING INTO TROUBLE | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...eating; my appetite has shut down; my hair is falling out in clumps; I have no desire for anything...Here, nothing is one's own, nothing lasts; uncertainty and precariousness are the only constant. The order is given at any moment to pack up and one gets to sleep stretched out anywhere like an animal. Those are the particularly difficult moments for me. My palms sweat, my mind gets foggy, and I end up doing things twice as slowly as normal. The marches are a calvary because my luggage is very heavy and I can't handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betancourt's Surprise Best Seller | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...Catalán lifestyle that’s thrown me for a loop—or the sun, which magically remains suspended, muggy hot and sweat-inducing, until past 9pm. Maybe it’s the ubiquitous use of military time, or the complete lack of a sleep schedule. (Party goers return, drunken and stumbling, ‘round...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: Time Out of Time | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...night gang didn't realize how far Obama would go: "Nobody said, 'Mr. President, it's your deal.' " But Obama's risk-averse, methodical approach to five-card stud gives Link confidence in his potential governing style. "If he runs his presidency the way he plays poker, I'll sleep good at night," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candidates' Vices: Craps and Poker | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

...lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Neil deGrasse Tyson | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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