Christopher Hitchens | Vanity Fair | 7 December 2011 Powerful piece of writing on dealing with disease, pain, death. From one of the great essayists. Does “whatever doesn’t kill me makes me stronger” hold true? Not when the very medicine that sustains you, weakens you Comments Jeff Wise | Popular Mechanics | 6 December 2011 Black box recordings retell events aboard Air France Airbus that crashed in 2009 killing 228. Gripping, if worrying, read. Confused co-pilot flew into a severe thunderstorm, tried to climb above it, stalled the plane Comments Charles Pierce | Sports Illustrated | 6 December 2011 Hmong community from Laos fought for America in Vietnam. Some survivors were later accepted as immigrants. Now their children are making a mark as high school footballers. A touching, bittersweet tale from rural Arkansas Comments Kristina Cooke & Marcus Stern | Reuters | 7 December 2011 Newt Gingrich is the latest Not-Romney figure embraced by Republicans. Once derided for hypocrisy of his affairs, he's now loving husband to his third wife. But who is she, and how do they manage their relationship and finances? Comments Ken Murray | Zocalo | 4 December 2011 "What’s unusual is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves" Comments John Branch | NYT | 3 December 2011 First of gripping three-parter on life and death of Derek Boogaard, pro (ice) hockey player. Born 1982, western Canada. Awkward, big child. Groomed for violence from a young age. Being the "enforcer" was a way of making the team Comments | 
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