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Federal inspectors are investigating whether the death of Professor Stephen W. Lagakos last October in a car crash was caused by sudden-acceleration problems attributed to defective Toyota cars...
...stressful process of choosing a clown name was finished, the newly minted clowns embarked on Balloon Animals 101—learning how to make dogs, then kangaroos and elephants (which are, practically speaking, dogs with different proportions), then flowers. Initially, many of the balloon animals died cruel and sudden deaths at the hands of the trainees, but skills began to improve...
Skinny and animated, with a mop of brown curls, Morris is equal parts charming and helpless, for he immediately draws the audience in with his panicked anxiety and confusion about his sudden imprisonment. It seems impossible that such a charismatic and haphazard individual could pen horrific tales of child murder, or suffocate his parents with pillows at the age of 14, but Morris skillfully captures the chiaroscuro of his character’s vulnerability and violence...
...sudden eruption caused a mild panic on flights already airborne. Kuenga Wangmo, a doctoral student at Cambridge University, was on a British Airways flight from Delhi to London when she learned of the news. "I was woken up when the captain announced that British airspace was contaminated by ash from an Icelandic volcano," she says. "I had no idea what was happening. Some of the passengers were nervous, especially those flying on to Canada." Wangmo's flight was one of the last to land at Heathrow on Thursday. (Read "Why Iceland's Volcano Is a Hazard for Air Travel...
...really connect, in a human sense, with the Poles. By contrast, within hours of the fatal plane crash outside Smolensk three days later, Putin himself was on the spot in Katyn, reaching out to the Poles in a spontaneously warm and compassionate fashion. That all of a sudden infused human feelings into an issue that had divided the two peoples. (See TIME's Poland covers...