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Last week the Bismarck's hulk was discovered some 600 miles west of the Brittany port of Brest by Robert Ballard, the undersea explorer who in 1986 located the wreck of the passenger liner Titanic. As in the search for the Titanic, Ballard, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, used the unmanned submersible Argo in his Bismarck quest. According to Ballard, the battleship, which lies 15,000 ft. below the surface, is intact, upright and "in an excellent state of preservation" -- a remarkable fact considering that more than 300 shells and torpedoes were fired into...
Penn has two of the top players in the game with freshman Rudolfo Ruiz--the most sought after recruit this year--and senior Stuart Ballard. The return of Peter Lubowitz will bolster the Qauker line...
...CREATION by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). The quest for a hidden river in the Sahara unleashes a mythic adventure. Splendid surrealism from the author of Empire...
...CREATION by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: $17.95). The quest for a hidden river in the Sahara unleashes a mythic adventure. Splendid surrealism from the author of Empire...
With the mythic, vivid The Day of Creation, J. G. Ballard confirms his transformation from sci- fi cult figure to mainstream novelist...