Jack Guez / AFP / Getty The Olympic judo mixed-team final between France and Japan had come down to a tie, 3–3, at the end of the regulation bouts, when the random spin of a wheel was used to decide which gender and weight class would face each other in a tie-breaker: “men’s +90kg.” France’s […]
The encounter happened years ago, but Beverly K. Brandt remembers it vividly. She was leaving her office at Arizona State University, where she taught design history, to run an errand for her ailing stepfather. He had moved into a retirement community nearby after his wife, Dr. Brandt’s mother, died of cancer. As his caregiver, Dr. […]
The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Covert, Mich. John Madill | The Herald-Palladium | AP The Palisades Power Plant on the shores of Lake Michigan had become a piece of history, a relic of an era when nuclear energy was viewed as the future. The reactor in Covert, Michigan, about 70 miles of southwest of […]
One of the riveting tales in “Telltale Hearts,” a new memoir, is about the author’s great-uncle Aladar, a Hungarian Jew who was drafted to fight the Russians in 1916 and spent months in trenches, shooting and getting shot at, and waiting. Russian troops launched an offensive that fall that overwhelmed the Austro-Hungarian soldiers. At one […]
