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"Everyone Who Flies, Or Loves Someone Who Flies Should Read This" Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger, Miracle On The Hudson As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five. But why? Seconds to Disaster will demonstrate that part of that bad luck is often aided by the airline industry's own endless...

Produced in Murano, in collaboration with the Maestro glassblower Simone Cenedese, each vase is composed of four elements: two blocks of cast glass (in four different sizes and two different thicknesses—6 or 7 centimeters), a blown glass tube (in two different heights), and a small shallow blown glass dish that can be stacked on top of the tube. Each element is of a different shade, picked from an eleven-color palette.

From the almost infinite number of possible permutations that these basic forms allow for, Ronan Bouroullec selected twenty unique compositions. Through them, he...

Eamon de Valera embodies Irish independence much as de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Churchill exemplifies British resolve. Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the man who remains the most famous, and most divisive, political figure in modern Irish history, reconciling de Valera's shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who single-handedly severed Ireland's last ties to England.

Born in New York in 1882, de Valera was sent away to be raised by his mother's family in Ireland, where a solitary upbringing forged the extraordinary self-sufficiency...

In April of 2012 the Vatican issued a harsh "doctrinal assessment" of the largest organization of Catholic sisters in the U.S., the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The "assessment" was the culmination of a three-year investigation. Simultaneously, the Vatican had been conducting a visitation of 340 active (non-cloistered) congregations of U.S sisters. What do these developments mean?

This is the question Catholic scholar and activist Marian Ronan sets out to answer in "Sister Trouble: The Vatican, the Bishops, and the Nuns," her galvanizing collection of articles about the...