Smoke Alarms May Fail To Wake Children

American Voices

December 21, 2006 | ISSUE 42•51

Studies show that many children do not wake up for smoke alarms, a special concern over the holidays. What do you think?

Kids are so spoiled. In my day, if we ignored the fire alarm, we burned to death!

Ted Hart
Gift Wrapper
My wife and I believe it's more dependable to stand on the lawn and scream 'My baby is still up there!'

Andy Toomin
Carpet Layer
That reminds me. I think the batteries for that thing are in the flashlight right now.

Sally Carmichael
Genealogist

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.