When a Bridge Falls
At the height of rush hour on August 1, 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a bridge carrying eight lanes of I-35W over the Mississippi River suddenly collapsed, sending cars trucks plunging into the water...
View ArticleOn Shaky Ground
The 1989 earthquake that shook San Francisco sent out a wake up call that continues to echo across the country. On October 17, 1989, the opening jolt of a major American earthquake was broadcast on...
View ArticleThree Mile Island: Lessons from the Nuclear Dream
More than three decades after the accident at Three Mile Island cast a shadow on the atomic dream, is America again ready to give nuclear energy a chance? slide3 Evan Keefer, 11, skips stones into the...
View ArticleSWAT: Mission Creep
SWAT teams were created in the 1960’s to combat violent events. Since then, the specialized teams have morphed into a force increasingly used in routine policing, most often to serve drug warrants....
View ArticleThe Promise of the Air Bag
How did cars become “computers on wheels,” so automated that some are about to start driving themselves? The story begins forty-five years ago with a quest to make cars safer and the battle over the...
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