Word: aegean
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...TANKER AEGEAN SEA NEVER MADE PORT. Loaded with nearly 24 million gal. of North Sea crude, struggling in heavy seas, the Greek-registered vessel foundered on rocks near the entrance to the Spanish port of La Coruna and began leaking from at least two of its nine tanks. As a series of explosions tore through the ship, sinking its bow and adding to the sludgy deluge, rescuers evacuated all of the 29-member crew by helicopter. The accident occurred at almost the exact spot along the northwest shore, nicknamed the "Coast of Death" for its toll on sea traffic over...
...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...
...Walcott never whines or indulges in unseemly confessions; he is, in fact, inordinately harsh with himself. Sometimes he claims his material is beyond or beneath the power of his art. In Gros-Ilet, he describes a small, desolate island village and concludes, "This is not the grape-purple Aegean. / There is no wine here, no cheese, the almonds are green, / the sea grapes bitter, the language is that of slaves." At other times, he is worried that his devotion to the English language has severed him from the people of his childhood. The Light of the World portrays the visiting...
...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
...department has finished searches for senior scholars in Aegean prehistoric, Spanish and Western medieval arts. The department's nominations are now before ad-hoc committees, and it may take some time before the appointments are actually made. This year, searches will begin for senior professors in northern Renaissance and Japanese art and for a junior scholar in modern art. The junior slot was recently vacated by Associate Professor of Fine Arts Anna C. Chave, who was denied tenure...