quote [ The revelations were withheld from city officials for more than two months following the incident. ]

quote [ "Conserve the sound" is an online archive for disappearing sounds.
The sounds of a dial telephone, a walkman, an analog typewriter, a payphone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are already partially gone or are just disappearing from daily life. Accompanying people come
in text and video interviews to speak and deepen the view into the world of disappearing sounds. ]

quote [ Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century ago, died Thursday, according to his agent Todd Eisner.

He was 82. ]

quote [ We asked DMC from Run DMC about Hip Hop today, he didn't hold back. ]

quote [ He was the first black African to become UN secretary-general and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. ]

quote [ A group of South American lizards that can grow up to four feet long (1.2 meters) has established a home in the Florida wild after being brought to the United States as pets, and the reptiles could begin a voracious march across the U.S. South, according to a new study. ]

quote [ Three Russian journalists investigating a private security firm have been killed in the Central African Republic. ]

quote [ Biscayne Park's former police chief and two officers were indicted Monday in federal court for falsifying the arrest of a 16-year-old on burglary charges so they could claim a perfect close-out record to elected leaders. ]

quote [ Last October, a UC Berkeley team headed down to the Arizona desert, plopped their newest prototype water harvester into the backyard of a tract home and started sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight. ]

quote [ Anthony Bourdain, a gifted storyteller and writer who took CNN viewers around the world, has died. He was 61.

CNN confirmed Bourdain's death on Friday and said the cause of death was suicide. ]