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...Atlantic, its skipper, Oliver de Kersouson, announced by radio. "The squid was pulling really hard, so we put the boat about and when we came to a stop the tentacles let go. We saw it behind the boat and it was enormous" - 9 m long, a crewman reckoned. Only 250 have been seen since 1639, so maybe it was just lonely...
During the last days of the first Gulf War, a 19-year-old tank crewman named Charles Sheehan-Miles found himself face to face with the enemy in the southern Iraqi desert. Assigned to stop Iraqi forces from fleeing to Baghdad, his division had found a fuel truck filled with Iraqi troops. The Americans blasted the truck with cannon fire; when those still alive tried to run rather than be taken prisoner, Sheehan-Miles and his platoon mates shot and killed them. "What we did was militarily right," Sheehan-Miles says now. "But I had to live with myself after...
...find it's filled with memorabilia from the state. University of Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...module--the latest, $320 million addition to the much delayed International Space Station--officials conceded they had overlooked something. Though the school bus-size pod will be home to three astronauts for four months at a time, it has been outfitted with only two tiny sleeping berths--leaving one crewman no place to bunk...
...presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors of radii 48. They're sometimes put on 49. Gene, who is advising Clinton on an economic plan for impoverished areas 52. Rebels demanded this Fijian President step down 53. Henley crewman 54. James in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 55. Did away with 56. Org. that's offering speeding-ticket insurance 57. Britney Spears fan, most likely...