• L.A. to San Francisco by train in 30 minutes? A pipe dream indeed

    L.A. to San Francisco by train in 30 minutes? A pipe dream indeed

    May 11, 2016 11:44 PM EDT

    ... this wasn't the Kitty Hawk powered flight moment. This was probably one of the glider tests that we're less familiar with that the Wright brothers did before that moment. It was an opportunity for them to test out their linear electric motor, which will help drive this capsule ...

  • Living with stress for too long may be giving kids asthma

    Living with stress for too long may be giving kids asthma

    Dec 10, 2015 12:44 AM EDT

    ... percent more likely to report having asthma during childhood. Those who suffered four traumatic events were 73 percent more likely to have asthma. DR. ROSALIND WRIGHT, Mount Sinai Health System: You can't ignore it anymore. The data is there that says psychological stress is a factor, just like these ...

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    As Unrest Shakes Middle East, Will Iran's Opposition Movement Gain Traction?

    Feb 15, 2011 11:35 PM EDT

    ROBIN WRIGHT: Well, in the immediate aftermath of the protests in 2009, the government did arrest hundreds of -- well, thousands of people. And it put hundreds of them on trial in mass trials that were Stalinesque in their scope. And the -- it was a message clearly to the opposition leaders ...

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    Full Text of Obama's 2011 State of the Union

    Jan 26, 2011 02:00 AM EDT

    ... creativity and imagination of our people. We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives. It’s how we make a living. Our free enterprise ...

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    Katrina Relocation Challenges

    Sep 12, 2005 04:00 AM EDT

    ... homeless. SPENCER MICHELS: Troynel and Eric Wright live in a two bedroom apartment, former military housing, in the Scotlandville section of Baton Rouge. And now brothers, cousins, nephews, nieces, mothers and in-laws have descended on them. TROYNEL WRIGHT: Pregnant girl, the grandmother. The children. My baby can't sleep ...

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    In Memorium: Al Hirschfeld

    Jan 21, 2003 05:00 AM EDT

    RAY SUAREZ: For more than 75 years, Al Hirschfeld captured the lives and personalities of the theater through his drawings primarily in the New York Times. Hirschfeld drew everything from magazine covers to postage stamps, but he's best known for his newspaper drawings of performing artists, the Marx Brothers ...

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    Merging Media

    Jun 25, 2002 04:00 AM EDT

    ... and print. As it is, the reach of today's media empires is staggering. AOL Time Warner, for example, owns America Online, CNN, HBO, Warner Brothers Studios, Time Inc.'s 140 magazines, and Time Warner cable. Altogether it is worth some $100 billion-- sharply down from what it was worth ...

  • Being shamed by a CEO turned this mom into a health privacy advocate

    Being shamed by a CEO turned this mom into a health privacy advocate

    Jul 21, 2015 11:09 PM EDT

    ... isn't how a baby gets born.' WILLIAM BRANGHAM: She was a baby girl, weighing just one pound, nine ounces. Barely a quarter of her brother's birth weight. One doctor described her skin as -- quote -- "gelatinous." Because she'd arrived so early, she had few of the normal functions ...

  • Former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams charged with witness tampering, destroying evidence

    Former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams charged with witness tampering, destroying evidence

    Oct 08, 2024 04:16 PM EDT

    ... director of Asian affairs whose own fundraiser efforts for the mayor have come under scrutiny. Last week, he announced the school's chancellor David Banks – Wright's husband, Philip Banks' brother – would step down later this month. The city's police commissioner, Edward Caban, and a senior mayoral advisor, Timothy ...

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    Frontline Examines Muslim Brotherhood's 'Strong, Layered' Role in Egypt

    Feb 22, 2011 11:39 PM EDT

    ... It wasn't until three days into the protests that the Muslim Brotherhood's senior leadership officially threw their weight behind the revolt. Now the Brothers were running the security checkpoints, serving hot tea, distributing blankets, printing posters and running an emergency health clinic. They call themselves the Brothers, in ...