Word: deep-sea
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...first report focuses on the seas, and for the lead profile TIME essayist Roger Rosenblatt explored the California coast with Sylvia Earle, a noted deep-sea diver and ocean advocate. Says he: "In a few days, she taught me the wonder of her world. I think she loves her subject too much to keep it to herself." Other stories came from a global team of TIME correspondents and contributors: Lisa Beyer, Jack Epstein, Christopher Hallowell, Thomas Sancton and John Skow. Beyer discovered that one of Jordan's leading conservationists is a 28-year-old cousin of King Hussein...
...dope-slamming druggie," she turned 18 in jail, jugged on a possession charge. She seems not to have known Grand-Papa Ernest well (and would say, no, no, not that Hemingway family, not me), though later she adored his younger brother, her great-uncle Leicester, and spent memorable days deep-sea fishing with...
DIED. ATHELSTAN SPILHAUS, 86, scientific jack-of-all-trades; in Middleburg, Va. A deep-sea thermometer and weather-friendly covered skyways were among his futuristic designs...
...especially fond of the organisms that live inside undersea tube worms, existing on sulphur filtering out of deep-sea thermal vents...
...ours. Unfortunately, the vast majority of places out there are depressingly and forbiddingly unearthlike. We figured that life there, if at all possible, would probably come in highly exotic forms based on completely different chemistries from ours (silicon, for example). And yet here in front of our noses are deep-sea, carbon-based microbes able to live in hellish, almost Venus-like conditions. If here, why not out there...