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More than $1 million was spent renovating bathrooms and sleeping quarters to accommodate women. Crewmen received color-coded brochures on how they should act around their female shipmates. (A polite compliment, for example, was in the "green zone" and acceptable. "Red zone" behavior included promising promotions for sex.) Squadron commanders conducted seminars for pilots' wives, some of whom were nervous about their husbands working in close quarters with female aviators. Doctors trained in gynecology were brought on board. The ship's barbers were even given classes in cutting women's hair...
...first sign of trouble appeared shortly after midnight on a closed- circuit television monitor in the engine room. One of the engineers on , watch saw that water was entering the ship near the bow doors. Believing it was only rain, the crewmen activated the bilge pumps. But within minutes the sea was pouring into the lower car deck near the waterline, and the ship began rolling heavily onto its left side...
...crew of four sailed triumphantly into France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of whales off Brazil, cracking a hull, and nearly lost two crewmen in a mid-Atlantic gale. Ultimately, Peyron prevailed through wit and guile, not technology. Fogg would have approved...
...SCENE LOOKS AS TIMELESS as one from the Odyssey: billowing sails, hulls slicing through salt spray, sunburned crewmen pulling at ropes and squinting into wind. But if the image is classic, the men competing in the America's Cup final this week know victory will owe more to expensive high-tech wizardry than to the art of ancient mariners. "National technology is at the heart of the competition," says John Marshall, boatbuilder and head of the Partnership for America's Cup Technology. "It's been a technology contest since 1851." That year a newly designed schooner called America launched...
Sure enough, he was rescued 12 hours later with only minor injuries. Three crewmen on his Russian-built turboprop plane were killed when it crash-landed during a sandstorm over the southern Libyan desert. He and his staff of nine had been flying from the Sudan to Libya when the storm closed in. Libyan search planes found the downed craft the next morning. "I'm well," Arafat said...