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Kotzebue went much farther, all the way to the Elbe. On the far side of the river, just after noon on April 25, he spotted soldiers. Through his field glasses, they looked like Russians. "Amerikansky!" he shouted, but they did not answer. He fired two green flares, the agreed upon sign of recognition between the two sides. The strangers made no response...
...Hitler signed his will. He designated Goebbels as Chancellor and Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz as commander of the armed forces. He said he had never wanted a war. He blamed that and all his other crimes upon his victims, whom he described as "international Jewry and its helpers." Then Hitler left instructions for his body to be burned. By now the Red Army was fighting for the nearby Tiergarten and smashing westward along the Leipzigerstrasse, just one block south of the bunker...
...morning rains forced an extra-cautious NASA to send the Discovery on an additional orbit and delay its return by some 90 minutes. The touchdown was a bit rough: Discovery blew a tire as it rolled to a stop on the Kennedy Space Center's three-mile-long runway. Upon examination, the ship proved to have suffered more external damage than any previous shuttle--a dinner-plate-size hole near its wingtip and damage to 123 protective tiles. NASA will carefully assess the damage, but has no plans to cancel or postpone future scheduled missions...
...Drawing upon sources as diverse as long-classified FBI records arid the Wellesley Magazine, Seagrave, a journalist who grew up on the China-Burma border, feverishly ransacks the past. He resurrects old Shanghai and recollects, in passing, such spicy background scenes as the sailors' prison in San Francisco, a "bin full of murderers, cutthroats, sodomists, and mutineers dredged from the leaky hulls that jammed the docks." He also does some riffs on Chinese secret societies, the erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce...
Professor of Health Care Policy Ronald Kessler, a co-author of the project, says foster children’s greater likelihood of mental health risks is primarily based upon the experiences, such as neglect and abuse, that children face before entering the foster system...