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Five years ago, Ulrich wrote A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for history...
That includes some scientists. Although he has never been to the very deepest trenches, ocean explorer Robert Ballard of Woods Hole, who is best known for discovering the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, is convinced that the action lies in the relative shallows. "I believe that the deep sea has very little to offer," he says. "I've been there. I've spent a career there. I don't see the future there." The French have decided not even to bother trying to break the 20,000 ft. barrier--the range of their deepest-diving submersible, the three-person...
...conditions. Moreover, remotely operated vehicles such as Kaiko put scientists on the scene, at least in a virtual sense, through video images piped in real time through the fiber-optic cable. Researchers can gather around a monitor and discuss what they are seeing without distractions. "You're focused," says Ballard. "You're not thinking, 'Is there enough oxygen in here? I've got a headache. I just hit my head. I've got to go to the bathroom...
...Having supported her before, Penn has reversed course: in a pretrial memorandum filed in February, Penn charges that the affair "grew out of her strong sexual attraction to and romantic feelings for Woodfield." Penn has asked for her diary to prove her consent; meanwhile, says Topol's lawyer, Alice Ballard, Bates is trying to get records from her psychotherapist...
Ulrich won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1990 book A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. She specializes in American the social history before 1820, especially the social history of New England