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Could some of the 118 Russian sailors who died in the August 2000 Kursk submarine disaster have been saved? A high-level Russian source tells TIME they could have been if rescue gear aboard the ship had ever been tested. After an explosion in the ship's torpedo room ripped open the hull, 23 surviving crewmen rushed to a floating rescue capsule located in the rear of the submarine. But the capsule failed to disengage and surface. Russian investigators looking into the disaster have been vague about the reasons for the failure. But TIME's source says that "on orders...
Radio technology and medical know-how came together most dramatically in April 2000. Pirates had boarded the sailboat of a Dutch family off the coast of Honduras and had shot a 13-year-old boy who was aboard. His injuries were so severe that the bullet severed his spinal cord and paralyzed...
...What Putin achieved in Slovenia he cemented on Sept. 11, when he was the first foreign leader to call the White House after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. With the President circling 35,000 ft. above Florida aboard Air Force One, Rice took the call. Putin said he knew U.S. forces were being placed on high alert but that he would order his own military to stand down - a break from cold war tradition, when any escalation of military activity by one side was seen as a potentially hostile move by the other...
Edouard trained as an engineer and served for two years as an officer aboard a nuclear submarine before he joined Michelin in 1989. Like all company executives, he spent six months on an assembly line before becoming part of the management team. In 1991, following Michelin's acquisition of the American tire company Uniroyal-Goodrich, he was named ceo of Michelin's U.S. unit. He returned to the company's Clermont-Ferrand headquarters in 1993 to prepare for the succession. Just months later Edouard faced media and political ire when, on the same day Michelin revealed a quarterly profit increase...
...Widowmaker (July 19): Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Strange Days) and starring Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson, K-19 is based on the true-life story of the first Soviet nuclear sub to be launched, and the poor bastards aboard it. Early word is that everyone pulls their weight, but can’t escape the cliches of the submarine genre...