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...which the captain reportedly refused to do. Mohammed Abdallah, 41, another Egyptian survivor, told Time: "They didn't tell anybody anything." Shipping industry sources described the doomed 35-year-old vessel as a "roll-on, roll-off" model for carrying cars and trucks, on which the European Union imposed strict safety standards following a string of capsize disasters. Says David Osler, industrial editor of Lloyd's List in London: "It's scandalous that a ship of that age is still in business...
...relaunching Barrie's beloved flight of fantasy. "I hadn't realized it was such a big deal," says McCaughrean. "But I thought, No, I'm damned if I'm going to be daunted. I'll just enjoy myself." Why McCaughrean? The identity of the other competing authors is a strict secret, but it's a safe bet that the trustees of London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (gosh), to whom Barrie bequeathed the royalties of Peter Pan in 1929, had more bankable names than hers to pick from. She jokes that fame has eluded her because her name...
...decided she was missing the Olympic-caliber coaching and skating facilities of the East Coast, so she and her family moved to considerably chillier Connecticut, where she joined the powerhouse skating team of Tatiana Tarasova, who has coached eight Olympic champions. There Cohen was forced to adopt a strict regimen of endurance and strength training to build up her core for whipping off jumps. The result: she had her best season, winning three international competitions. The 56-year-old Tarasova's health began to decline, however, and so did her relationship with Cohen, who was starting to chafe under...
...France, I recently returned from a teaching mission in sub-Saharan Africa. There I was appalled to see patients with acute pneumonia sent home to die, unless the family could pay $180 in cash for hospitalization. I am reassured to read that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands strict accountability from its grantees. ALBERT FOURNIER Amiens, France
...McLaren said that strict objectivity is difficult to achieve...