March 15, 2014

The Astronaut Who Went On Strike
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/03/14/290093752/the-astronaut-who-went-on-strike
On March 3, William R. Pogue died in Cocoa Beach, Florida, at the age of 84. An Air Force pilot and astronaut, Pogue was never a household name ? but I think he deserved to be. As the obituary in The New York Times explains, Pogue did something ...


APNewsBreak: No charges against Connecticut man who killed son, thinking he ...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/14/apnewsbreak-no-charges-against-connecticut-man-who-killed-son-thinking-was/
A popular fifth-grade teacher who fatally shot a knife-wielding prowler in a ski mask and then learned it was his 15-year-old son will not face prosecution, a person briefed on the decision told The Associated Press on Friday. Prosecutors do not plan ...


Alabama spring questions: Who will start the season at left tackle?
http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2014/03/alabama_spring_questions_who_w_1.html
He was on the field so much during his two-year stint as Alabama's starting left tackle that it was hard to gauge who would even step in for him if he were to go down with a significant injury. Now, he's simply gone, opening the door for the likes of ...


Meet The 10 Billionaire Tycoons Who Rule Their Countries' Economies
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2014/03/14/meet-the-10-billionaire-tycoons-who-rule-their-countries-economies/
We dug through our billionaires list to find these 10 and disqualified people who were no longer living in their native countries or who built fortunes in city-nations like Hong Kong and Monaco. What we came up with is a list not of the world's richest ...


Confusion over plane's messages: Who got them?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/confusion-over-planes-messages-who-got-them/2014/03/14/392aabbc-ab71-11e3-98f6-8e3c562f9996_story.html
For three minutes, as a giant airliner began a plunge to its demise in the ocean, the plane sent out a series of frantic messages ? 29 of them ? alerting its home base that it was in trouble. They came not from the pilots, who were struggling to ...


One Company's Success Story: Who Needs A CEO Anyway?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robasghar/2014/03/14/one-companys-success-story-who-needs-a-ceo-anyway/
The construction industry isn't often a laboratory for organizational change or state-of-the-art management practices. It's about as unapologetically old school as it gets. Yet one firm, DPR Construction, has imploded the mold?and in the process has ...


John Peter Smith says hospital still trying to determine who will pay for ...
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/03/john-peter-smith-says-hospital-still-trying-to-determine-who-will-pay-for-brain-dead-womans-62-day-stay.html/
John Peter Smith Hospital said Friday it has not yet determined who will pay for Marlise Muñoz's two-month stay that ended with a judge's order to remove her from life support. Earlier this morning, WFAA's Jobin Panicker tweeted that Erick Muñoz would ...


Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Who Guided Sierra Leone to Peace, Dies at 82
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/africa/ahmad-tejan-kabbah-who-guided-sierra-leone-to-peace-dies-at-82.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who as president of Sierra Leone was widely credited with returning peace to his West African nation after years of brutal civil war, died on Thursday at his home in Freetown, the country's capital. He was 82. His death was ...