Some Wednesday Reads

 The assault on abortion rights continues, whether loud, or, as this article notes, more subtle.

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A group searching for an airliner which had crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950 decided to stop further explorations.  The group started the search in 2004, but it came up empty.

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"It's a hard thing to have to say because part of me feels like we have failed," van Heest told The Detroit News, "but we have done so much to keep memory of this accident and these victims at forefront that I feel like we've done better for them than if we'd found the wreckage."

After covering 700 square miles of Lake Michigan, Van Heest said scientists believe the plane broke up into pieces too small to be detected by side-scan sonar and likely "sunk into the muck" on the bottom.

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Obit:  Continuing with the deaths of people prominent in the music field, guitarist Mick Ralphs, 81, who was a member of the bands Bad Company and Mott The Hoople, died after spending many years in a nursing home.  He had been there since suffering a stroke in 2016.

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Ralphs left the English rock band, Mott the Hoople, after he met Rodgers in 1971 and shared mutual songs with the artist while having an “inspired” jam session, according to the statement. Rodgers and Ralphs then formed the band, Bad Company, adding former King Crimson bassist and vocalist Boz Burrell and drummer Simon Kirke.

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