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The Purple Corkscrew
At 5:53am on the morning of February 1, 2003, Sarah and I stood on Bernal Hill in San Francisco looking west in the sky. Broken low clouds had barely parted enough for us to find what we had come for, above the western horizon. “There it is,” I said, as…
U.S. commemorates Columbia disaster for 10 year anniversary
With somber ceremonies, the United States on Friday commemorated the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew on the tenth anniversary of the disaster. Columbia, NASA’s first space shuttle orbiter to be put into service, disintegrated during re-entry on February 1, 2003, as it was ending its…
Tennessee man arrested for repeatedly drunk dialing 911
A Columbia, Tennessee man was arrested last weekend and charged with misusing 911 after he dialed emergency dispatchers nine times in a single day, including one call in particular wherein he asked if they could send a car to take him on a beer run. Allen Troy Brooks, 67, was…
2010 Pulitzer Prizes awarded at Columbia University
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times were each awarded two coveted Pulitzer Prizes for journalism on Monday. The Los Angeles Times won the public service award for its exposure of corruption in the Californian city of Bell where officials tapped the treasury to pay themselves large…
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