There’s no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and perilous proposition. It brings to mind a gloomy but necessary question to ask: If someone dies in space – ...

When someone dies, their bank accounts don’t just disappear. What happens next depends on how the accounts were set up and ...

It is possible that someone would die or, two people could die, or even more. But basically, 10 to 20 hospitalizations and roughly 1,200 infections. Now, we have a lot of uncertainty. So it's not like ...

Passengers rarely fall off cruise ships, but cases attract plenty of attention when they happen. There have been other incidents in recent years but these cases are very much in the minority and ...

We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning. Just ask Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China or Johnnie Ray. Songwriters can’t get away from fire metaphors and imagery.

Bank accounts with named beneficiaries transfer directly to those people with just a death certificate and ID. Joint accounts with survivorship rights automatically belong to the surviving owner.

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