12 January 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 12 Jan 2007 The 1982 crash of Air Florida flight 90 forever changed the role of the co-pilot--and drastically improved commercial airline safety. Do balloons work the same one mile up? The Democratic National Convention heads to Denver for 2008. Gather.com readers will vote which author will have their manuscript published by Simon & Schuster. Minucci claimed he used the slur as a friendly greeting before beating a black man with a baseball bat in Howard Beach in 2005. Legislating against "the n-word" is further proof we're missing the forest for the trees. How to improve your hospital's survival rate for liver transplants: Select better candidates. One in five drivers entering the busiest parts of Manhattan are only passing through, on their way somewhere else. The surprising traffic stats of New York. In an era where labels matter--and offer--less and less, today's musicians are redefining "independent," at least for today. Sarah Hepola on being cast as R2D2 instead of Princess Leia, in today's Video Digest Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11. Related: "It's time for you to see the fnords." Today's long read: How the Christian right is re-imagining U.S. history.
