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Scouring the murky waters off Alexandria using the latest scientific instruments, Goddio's 35-man team had already landed two prizes. Working with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, it located another lost city, Menouthis, and the wreckage of Napoleon's flagship, L'Orient, destroyed by Britain's Admiral Nelson two centuries ago in the Battle of the Nile...
...Herakleion, its economic importance waned after Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in 332 B.C. But Herakleion remained an influential cultural center, the goal of many religious pilgrims, until the 8th century A.D., when it was suddenly destroyed, probably by a powerful earthquake that toppled its buildings and submerged the entire city...
Sarah (All names have been changed). Class of 1993. Kirkland House. Social Studies concentrator. From Alexandria, Va. What she did after graduating: Let's Go editor; job in banking industry, magazine intern, sexy paralegal, hair stylist (best job all year), Yale Law School. Now she's a teaching fellow...
NEAREST MAJOR MEDICAL CENTER: 265-bed St. Frances Cabrini Hospital, with a full cancer center, 50 minutes away in Alexandria...
Sandra and Don Duckworth will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary together in June--after spending most of the past nine years apart. He's the director and CEO of the Bishop Museum, Hawaii's popular cultural and natural-history institution. She's a political consultant based in Alexandria...