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...Dive, make your depth eight-zero feet," a lieutenant in the control room commanded. The diving officer behind me patted my shoulder and ordered me to pull the wheel slowly to my chest. We were taking the sub up to 25 m below the water's surface so the Nebraska could poke out its periscope...
...weigh 17,000 tons. The sub responded sluggishly when I moved the wheel. I also had to steer three-dimensionally. The wheel not only turned left and right, but to point the boat down or up, I had to push the wheel in or pull it to my chest. What's more, the sub has two steering wheels. A sailor to my left moved horizontal planes at the back of the boat that could cause it to dive or ascend. My wheel controlled the stern rudder and the horizontal fins at the sail (the sub's giant hump near...
...Saturday, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office announced they had issued arrest warrants for the two teens, natives of Chelsea, Vt., for "acting in concert to cause the deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop by stabbing them multiple times in the head and chest...
...that, like two estranged lovers arguing over who left the cap off the toothpaste, they skipped over the substance and focused on old slights. How had the Veep, who had lunched privately with the President every week in earlier days, only now got around to getting "things off his chest"? It's equally amazing that Clinton was surprised when Gore went into their last meeting still "knotted up" over the Lewinsky affair, "the elephant in the living room" (as Gore adviser Carter Eskew put it) that closed so many minds to Gore...
...could hardly blame him. After all, Rasmussen had had his chest cracked open, his heart stitched up and was swimming in painkillers. Is it any wonder that he--and 30% to 80% of the more than 500,000 Americans who undergo bypass each year--would experience bouts of mental fogginess after surgery? Most surgeons assumed these effects were temporary, since they usually disappeared a few weeks or months after the operation--as they did in Rasmussen's case. Besides, doctors tended to focus on the more pressing bypass complications--stroke, for example, which occurs in 1% to 5% of cases...