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SUICIDE AND THE TITANIC SURVIVORS
Eight of the approximately 705 people who survived the sinking of the Titanic committed suicide.
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ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
THE DEAD OF THE TITANIC
On the afternoon of April 20, 1912, passengers on the German ship Bremen were told they were passing by the iceberg that had sunk the Titanic five days earlier. Those who rushed to the rails were horrified to realize that the hundred or so white dots in the ocean were frozen bodies, held aloft by life vests.
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LIFEBOATS ON THE TITANIC
The Titanic carried far too few lifeboats to accommodate its passengers and crew, which totalled 2,207.
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OCEAN LINERS: TITANIC TO TODAY
On April 15th, 2012, the passengers of the Balmoral, a cruise ship on the North Atlantic, will pause shortly after midnight to commemorate the loss of a vessel that sailed the same waters exactly 100 years before: the RMS Titanic.
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“WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST” AND THE DEBATE OVER WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Of the 2,207 people aboard the Titanic when it hit the iceberg, 1,664 were male passengers or crew members and only 438 were female passengers or crew members. Yet the odds a male passenger would survive the accident were 1 in 5.91 (16.9%) while the odds a female passenger would survive were 1 in 1.37 (73%).
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FATAL POLITENESS: BRITISH MORTALITY AND THE TITANIC
How would you react if you found yourself on a sinking ship with a couple of thousand other people? A recent study suggests your actions might depend both on your nationality, and how fast your ship is sinking
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BEHIND THE NUMBERS OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Numbers for the casualties of the Titanic have been listed as high as 2,340 and as low as 2,201. Why is there so much uncertainty almost a century later?
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WALKING AND TEXTING: DANGERS OF A MOBILE LIFESTYLE
Perched in a leather armchair on a San Francisco stage recently, Apple’s Steve Jobs declared a new age of mobile media devices, starting with the new iPad. But for the millions of pedestrians outside in the streets, those distracting gadgets—especially cell phones—are creating some shocking, but mostly unreported, safety risks.
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A LICENSE TO KILL? ARE OLDER DRIVERS DANGEROUS?
“Older driver”—the mere phrase conjures images of Mr. Magoo obliviously driving over fire hydrants and scattering terrified barnyard animals. In real life, frequent news accounts of elderly drivers plowing into pedestrians add to the public perception that seniors are a highway menace.
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36% OF DRIVERS HAVE NODDED OFF BEHIND THE WHEEL
How exasperating sleep can be. Home in your comfortable bed, you may toss and turn, unable to find slumber. But on the road, when you need to be alert to survive, staying awake can be a brutal struggle.
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