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...last week, stirring Girgis Rifaat awake in his cabin. "People began yelling 'Fire, fire!'" Rifaat, a 30-year-old Egyptian returning from his job as a salesman in Kuwait, told Time at a hospital in Hurghada. "I realized that the boat was going down." As the vessel listed precariously, Rifaat leapt overboard, swam to a lifeboat and waited 19 hours before being pulled out of the water by a helicopter. Most of the other 1,510 people thought to be on board, mainly Egyptian workers, were not so fortunate. By Saturday, Egyptian search-and-rescue operations had brought 378 survivors...
...floor shattered his ankles instantly. Shrapnel sliced into his left arm, cutting an artery. He would have bled to death right there if three fellow soldiers hadn't rushed him to the field operating room in a record 13 minutes. Military doctors--astonished Braddock had survived--pulled a blood vessel out of his right thigh to repair his bleeding left arm and patched him up for a flight out, first to Tikrit, then to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, and finally home...
...dirndl skirt," as she later wrote, preferred the road less traveled. En route she would find herself spending hours with the gallery's collections of ancient Chinese and Korean ceramics. In the green celadon glaze of a Koryo Dynasty bowl or the elliptical lid of a Song court vessel, she found pieces of perfection - and the source of her art. It's a discovery wonderfully echoed in the show: to approach the retrospective you must first walk through the Kent Collection as the 19-year-old would have done, and if you look around carefully enough, you'll find some...
...whale before. It's not something that happens too often in London." LOUISE KEEN, London medical-school administrator, on a northern bottle-nosed whale that drew crowds after becoming stranded in the River Thames. Despite attempts to save the 5-m-long mammal, it later died aboard a rescue vessel...
...emblem of masculinity, known in China as the “yang.” The mythical phoenix is symbolic of the feminine component of the world, or the “yin.” A jade vase with nephrite yellow and brown markings—a wine vessel from the early eighteenth century—portrays the yin and yang relationship, with images of the dragon and phoenix on opposite sides. In another handscroll, from the seventeenth century, “The Twelve Zodiac Animals as Poets,” animals are used to reflect cultural symbols. Animals...