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...unaware. Here are other high-profile victims of the dreaded live mike, ranked on Time's blush-ometer. At the height of the cold war in 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan joked around while testing a microphone before his weekly radio address. "My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to tell you we have signed legislation today that would outlaw Russia forever," he declared. "We begin bombing in five minutes." Unfortunately, Reagan made the apocalyptic announcement into an open mike, and it was picked up by radio technicians in studios around the country as they waited for the President's broadcast...
...became the nearly 700th victim of an Israeli air strike. He told me he barely heard a thing before he was thrown more than 30 feet through the air with shrapnel piercing his feet and hands, and straight through his abdominal wall into his intestine. Luckily, he lived to tell about it. His best friend, who walking with...
...spend the evening with the Rodríguez brothers, and yet Don Ruben was still finishing up hammering a board into the exit of one of the shrimp ponds.Another man, Don Amadeus, had just come in, and though I don’t imagine anyone but Guatemalans could tell him apart from the rest, he was definitely of indigenous ancestry. Don Saúl and Don Celso were joking like they do all day long, when Don Ruben came back with a group of people who had gone over to watch him work. One of the men, Carlos...
...Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii 20 minutes after the quake, which was then passed on to 400 local authorities in charge of disaster management, as is standard procedure. The problem, he confesses, is what happens to the information after that. "It is not enough just to tell people," he says. "If they are not prepared and don't know to do you could create even more confusion and panic...
...special closes a loop in pop culture, since these clips are essentially music videos. Traditionally, historians have explained soldiers' documentary efforts - letters home, snapshots - as an attempt to force a narrative onto a situation that's out of control. But these videos don't even try to tell a story. They don't need a plot. Highlight reels at least give it a point: Blow stuff...