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While not engaging in skydiving certainly greatly reduces the chance of dying in a skydiving accident, it does not bring the risk to zero, as one of your sources stated. One could still be so unfortunate as to be standing underneath a skydiver whose chute fails to open. LAURENCE MARK New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 25, 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...Zero Arrow Theatre, a venue that, with its neon sign and clean hallways, hardly resembles a cellar, Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione—better known as The Dresden Dolls—are going for a similar effect...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dresden Dolls Worried about ART Debut | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

Coming soon to impeccably punctuated playgrounds everywhere. Just finding a kiddie version of Lynne Truss’ New York Times bestseller (yes, they put it on the cover twice) “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” was enough to make me spill coffee all over myself with glee. And they’ve even made it child-friendly by replacing the adult version’s homicidal, gun-toting bear with a cuddly, cupid-like archer of a panda. Combining small children’s great love of grammar with their fondness...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER: Kid's Corner | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...Ghost Map, Steven Johnson gives a ground-zero account of the outbreak that would take 50,000 lives before it was done. "Imagine the terror and panic," he writes, "if a biological attack killed 4,000 otherwise healthy New Yorkers over a 20-day period. Living amid cholera in 1854 was like living in a world where urban tragedies on that scale happened week after week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignorance is a Killer | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Well, you're down here right near ground zero. It seems like this is not just an intellectual exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert DeNiro in the Director's Chair | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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