Thursday, August 22

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New Travel article: The United States Department of Justice has approved Alaska Airlines' massive deal to buy competitor Hawaiian Airlines, and the purchase is now moving on to the next steps in the acquisition process.

You can read the full Travel article here.

Five more bodies have been found after British tech billionaire Mike Lynch's yacht sank on Monday, while one body is still missing. However, all six of the initial missing passengers have been confirmed dead.

The yacht, named Bayesian, was sailing near the coast of the Italian island of Sicily when a waterspout hit during an intense storm, sinking the boat. It had originally bee out there for a celebration sailing trip after Mike Lynch was acquitted from a recent trial involving the sale of his company, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard. Out of the original 22 people onboard, made up of 12 passengers and 10 crew, 15 survivors managed to escape in a lifeboat. One body, confirmed to be the ship's chef, was found immediately, while six others remained missing until yesterday. You can read more about the initial sinking in our previous daily update here.

Then, after divers discovered the wreck 164 feet below the surface, the search began. No living human activity was detected in the area, meaning that all six missing passengers were confirmed to be dead. However, only five bodies have been found, and the last one remains missing. Among the dead are Lynch, his 18 year old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy Bloomer, defense attorney Chris Morvillo, and his wife Neda Morvillo-- Chris Morvillo was the lawyer who successfully defended Lynch in his trial.

Divers are still searching for the last missing body, and the identification process will then begin to find out which body is which person. However, speculations have arisen over how the yacht sank so quickly, as it sank in a mere 16 minutes while another nearby ship escaped almost unscathed.

Fact of the Day (Reader's Digest): Skin is the heaviest organ in the body, weighing about 10 pounds in total. This is much more than the second-heaviest organ, the liver, which only weighs around 3.3 pounds.

Quote of the Day (Gracious Quotes): The past is in the past. What happened yesterday is history. I look forward to the future on daily basis. (Tyson Fury)

Word of the Day (Merriam-Webster): Ossify (verb)- In general contexts, something that ossifies becomes hardened or conventional and opposed to change. In medical contexts, something that ossifies (such as cartilage) forms or is transformed into bone.

In a Sentence: I asked if she'd reconsider her position, but her opinions on the matter have clearly ossified.