This Reporter's Notebook

Williams will anchor “NBC Nightly News” from New York tonight and then travel with Lestor Holt to hard-hit Tuscaloosa, Alabama for tomorrow’s broadcast.

This is an e-mail sent this morning from C.J. Chivers to the editors at Getty Images and Vanity Fair, describing events in Benghazi, Libya, since the remains of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros arrived at the Benghazi port last night. Mr. Hetherington, the conflict photographer and director of the Afghan war documentary, “Restrepo,” and

 For more on this story, read the beautiful Vanity Fair article.

[Men] were traditionally buried lying on their right side with the head pointing towards the west; women on their left side with the head facing east. In this case, the man was on his left side with his head facing west. Another clue is that men tended to be interred with weapons, hammers and flint knives…The ‘gay caveman’ was buried with household jugs, and no weapons.

Heartbreaking.

helen-of-troy:

Reading a story like this reminds me that I cannot complain about my life. EVER. 

Four New York Times journalists missing in Libya since Tuesday were captured by forces loyal to Col. Mumar el-Qaddafi and will be released Friday, his son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, told Christiane Amanpour in an ABC News interview.

Japan is a rich, high-tech nation with much rough experience of seismic rumblings: those factors have led it to plan, and plan well, for disaster, with billions spent over the years on developing and deploying technologies to limit the damage from temblors and tsunamis.

Those steps almost certainly kept the death count lower than it might otherwise be — especially in comparison with the multitudes lost in recent earthquakes in China and Haiti. Last Friday, however, showed the limits of what even the best preparation can do.