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...tether through which it transmitted live images to the three scientists in Alvin's cramped cabin. There was nothing left of the staircase itself; like much of the Titanic's celebrated woodwork, it had long since been devoured by wood-boring organisms. On every deck, though, exquisite glass and crystal chandeliers had been miraculously spared in the ship's violent descent. No human remains were seen. Said Ballard: "You have to remember that anything that's organic was eaten...
Alvin descended to a point about 450 feet from the stern and then rose to maneuver atop it before settling on the poop deck. Between two mooring line rollers, the plaque was placed to commemorate the victims and William H. Tantum IV, who encouraged efforts to locate the ship but died five years before the 1985 discovery by Ballard...
...that had befallen them after being lured into the world of pornography. In Miami, for example, Larry Madigan, 38, told the commission he had been "a typically normal, healthy boy," whose subsequent life of solitary masturbation, bestiality and drug addiction could all be traced to the finding of a deck of pornographic playing cards when he was twelve...
...tastes; last year 200,000 responses were returned. They form the first profile of an audio market that according to computer projections, will yield industry-wide sales of more than $250 million in 1986. After all, analysts point out, most new-car manufacturers offer the option of a tape deck, and Walkman-style cassette players have become as much a part of the urban landscape as Reeboks and Perrier. Each tape deck and set of earphones represents a potential customer, a statistic that is not lost on Frank Vertuca, associate director of marketing and distribution at Bantam. "A major part...
...homeless Cuban refugee named Juan Gonzalez, 43, unsheathed a 2-ft. sword he had been carrying. Shouting incoherently, he began slashing and stabbing anybody who stood in his way. Retired New York City Police Officer Edward del Pino, 55, seeing panicky passengers stampeding past him on the ferry's deck, rushed inside in time to see Gonzalez slash a woman to death. Pino, en route home from his job as a security guard, pulled out a .38-cal. pistol and fired a shot into the air. Ordering Gonzalez to hit the deck, he warned him, "You move...