Word: compartmental
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A year after the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk mysteriously exploded and sank with 118 sailors aboard, an international team is trying to raise the vessel--or most of it--to the surface. This week salvagers are scheduled to begin the dangerous process of slicing off the heavily damaged torpedo compartment...
1. Forget spontaneity. Had I planned ahead, I could have upgraded our Amtrak trip with a private sleeping compartment. When it comes to hotels, Brian Beihl, a father of three and president of the travel-products company Family on Board, recommends paying extra for a real one--the kind that...
43 Percentage of those surveyed who own guns and keep them in a locked compartment
HOME SAFETY Parents take precautions to childproof their homes, but a study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that they often ignore one major safety issue: keeping guns away from their kids. Among gun owners with children under age seven at home, 57% said they do...
When I was small enough to find the entire experience extremely exciting, my parents took my brother and me on the Autotrain - from somewhere in northern Virginia right on down to my grandparents? house in northern Florida. It promised to be romantic and glamorous - rather like those soft-focus, murder...