Much of Ms. Head’s account was posted on the Web site of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network, a nonprofit organization for which she served as president and as point person for corporate donations. But no part of her story, it turns out, has been verified. [From In a 9/11 Survival [...]
The composition and the content of this photograph are both amazing. On one half you have Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai being shot and on the other you have a group of protesters being beaten back. After the jump, a graphic video of Nagai being killed.
I spent a few days earlier this week up in San Francisco looking at colleges with the amazing new $39 Southwest Airlines fare from SAN to SFO. As I reached the San Diego airport, my mother noticed that I had my climbing chalk bag on the side of my backpack. Not wanting to get busted [...]
Well friends, the time has come. It is the fall of my senior year of high school and it is only fitting that I begin to plan my future. I am currently in the middle of applying for colleges and, right now, I’m not too stressed (ask me in two weeks). Of course, I am [...]
The major theme of my classes this semester is integration of art, nature and engineering. The largest project we have is to think up some way to make all of these three things work together in harmony. As a way to get us started thinking about this was to have us build kinetic sculptures out [...]
I went school shopping today to prepare myself for my final year of high school. As it should be, the farther you progress through your schooling career, the list of “required” supplies consistently dwindles. This year all I needed was the bare minimum — a few binders, some notebooks and some pens. Everything was great until [...]