Duck and cover: E-ink

Esquire’s E Ink Cover A 21st Century Flop: "Esquire unveiled a special 75th edition today sporting the first use by a magazine of electronic paper technology, but what is presented as the future of digital/print convergence is little more than ink mashed with some underutilized circuitry." (wired.com)

For all of them to live, one of them had to die

Gone: "What's it like to be kidnapped and held for ransom, not as a political prisoner but as an economic one? What's it like to live in the Ecuadoran jungle for 141 days? What's it like not to sleep, to be bound in chains, to have your body invaded by living things, to waste away to the point of death? What's it like to have one of your fellow hostages killed when the negotiators fail at negotiation? What's it like? This is what it's like."

Finalist, feature writing, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing 2002 (Tom Junod, Esquire magazine)

What matters, what separates you from home, is time

"Two astronauts trapped on the International Space Station as a result of the shuttle Columbia disaster literally had only one chance to make it back to Earth safely. 'Home' is a dramatic and revealing story about one of the longest stays in space, the mourning for lost colleagues, and the tortured and nearly deadly journey back."

Winner, feature writing, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing, 2005 (Chris Jones, Esquire magazine)

He knew how the bombs worked

The School: "On the first day of school in 2004, a Chechen terrorist group struck the Russian town of Beslan. Targeting children, they took more than eleven hundred hostages."

Winner, reporting, American Society of Mag. Editors' "Best American Magazine Writing, 2007." (C.J. Chivers, Esquire magazine)