Word: compartmentation
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I had the boatyard put an engine in my sailboat and I am going to spend the vacation embroidering the engine compartment with teak and mahogany. I am just going to work on that boat and play with the engine.
It looked as if Autissier might fare better this year. Despite early damage to her keel, mast and rudder, she had claimed the lead as the remaining 11 boats set out for Cape Horn and Uruguay. Hoping to gain time, Autissier opted for a southern route through what navigators call...
One fascinating aspect of Hochschild's story involves the sheer modernity of the crisis. Morel's constant coverage of the Congo in pamphlets, newspapers, mass meetings, novels and even church hymns amounted to a public relations campaign on an immense scale. And although Morel was successful, Leopold was his own...
The pilot's voice was calm, but his distress call described one of an aviator's worst fears: "We have smoke in the cockpit." Eleven minutes later, his radio fell silent, and six minutes after that, Swissair Flight 111 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, killing all 229...
There have been some intriguing leads. One person was arrested Nov. 13 and interrogated for several hours before being released. On the face of it, the man and his car seemed to match an eyewitness description of a damaged white Uno fleeing the tunnel with a large dog in the...