16. Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes at 9:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) ...
11. On 9/11, the New York City Police Department lost 23 officers. The Port Authority police lost 37. The FDNY's dead numbered 343. Here, firefighter Tony James cries while attending the funeral service for New York Fire Departmen...
6. In an image that reflects the Dantesque surreality of 9/11, witnesses watch flames spew (喷涌) from one of the several buildings -- in addition to the Twin Towers -- damaged or destroyed in lower Manhattan. Mario Tama's pho...
9/11 Remembered One decade after 9/11, an unsettling number of images from Ground Zero and its environs (附近的地方；环境) remain seared (烤焦) in our collective memory -- unsurprising, perhaps, given the scope and scale of the destruction. ...
“I quickly grabbed my camera and put it on a tripod by the window,” said the 31-year-old photographer who caught the moment the Eiffel Tower appeared to be struck by lightning. The photo, taken from his apartment window ...
by Piper Weiss, Shine Staff, on Thu Sep 1, 2011 3:30pm PDT You know the worst thing about going on vacation? Writing your out-of-office email message. It's always one of the last things on the to-do list along with bu...
High surf in Southern California A winter storm off the coast of Australia and New Zealand brought unusually high surf to the Southern California beaches. A large wave crashes behind a surfer at the Wedge in Newport Beach, Calif. on Thursda...
1 This is the terrifying moment a cloud threatened to develop into a full blown TORNADO over a row of family homes. Brave snapper Pat Kavanagh took this shot of an explosive black storm from the roof of his house in Taber, C...
Snapshots - This weekly collection includes eye-catching images from around the world.... An impressive iceberg arrived in Newfoundland’s Goose Cove in mid-July. “Icebergs float in from Greenland,” s...
1. 1. The Milky Way is home to over 200 billion stars and 50 billion planets. These incredi...
The Last Song is a 2010 American coming of age drama film developed alongside Nicholas Sparks novel by the same name. The film was directed by Julie Anne Robinson in her feature film directorial debut and co-written by Sparks and Jeff Van Wie. ...
Economic View By TYLER COWEN Published: July 9, 2011 WITHOUT outside help, Greece is probably insolvent (无力偿付债务的, 破产的) right now. In evaluating the country’s prospects, it’s worth asking what it would take for Greece to pay all...
It's that time of year, when we honor college graduates across the country by sharing some of the best moments of their big day. ...
As summer nears, college seniors’ thoughts move past graduation and toward the job market. For many, that means internships(实习期). But before you take that leap(跳入) into the internship market, make sure you know what internships rea...
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) already seems permanently young, but in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," he's hunting for the Fountain of Youth. Beautiful Angelica (Penelope Cruz) is along for the ride, and there's a confro...
Wakana Kumagai, 6, waits for her mother Yoshiko after visiting the grave of her father, who was killed by the March 11 tsunami, at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi prefecture, April 21, 2011. Reuters reports: Six-yea...
What does it take to age successfully? It’s a question researchers began to explore in earnest in the past 20 years, when it became clear that our understanding of aging no longer fit a world of active adults in their 80s, 90s, and beyo...
1. Marry an ugly man. Because if he ever leaves you, at least you won't feel bad since, you know, he's ugly. -- Lorraine Ontong Venturina 2. Unfortunately, it was advice that I didn't listen to. In 1986, as he was walking me down the a...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — Billionaire adventurer Richard Branson on Tuesday unveiled(揭掉……的面纱) a new single-person submarine(潜水艇) that he said will be used to set new world records by exploring the five deepest parts ...
Knut, the polar bear(北极熊) who became a global celebrity as a cute cub(幼崽), died in at the Berlin zoo March 19, 2011 at the age of four. Knut, the first polar bear born at the zoo for more than 30 years, was rejected by his mother and fed instead...