... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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