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...Link II. Their voyage was the first leg of a four-week, $550,000 expedition sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will continue until Aug. 20. Until now researchers have seldom viewed Superior at depths below 200 ft., generally the limit to which scuba divers descend. But using the Sea-Link, they have been able to plunge right to the bottom. The deepest point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Mother Superior's Secrets | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...month before pre-frosh descend on campus to decide if they will accept Harvard’s offer of admission, the University suffered another serious blow last week to its prestigious image...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers and Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Administration Hopes to Buck Stereotype | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...doubting Thomas choose between Jessie and his final monastic vows? Secret Life revolved around an icon, a black Madonna. This time it's a chair carved in the shape of a mermaid, a symbol of our spiritually amphibious nature, of the inner depths to which we must descend before we can solve the problems of our placid surface existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex and the Sacred | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

Welcome to Boston’s premier Mafia hangout. Descend three floors below Vittorio’s proper to enter an unmarked door that seemingly leads to the janitor’s closet. Sweep straight past the stone-faced bouncer and smile for the thirty pairs of eyes suddenly fixed upon you. Before you hit the bar up front, make sure you know what you want, because nothing is on display. If you made it this far, and found a cigar and a seat, congratulations – you’ve reached people-watching Valhalla. Even if psychology...

Author: By Diana E. Garvin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After The Fact: Give the Girl a Cigar | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...born in one of those typical Southern families who all more or less descend from William the Conqueror ... She resolved early to make men her career, and in 40 years reached the top--or almost. No man she careered is known to have ever said a word not in her praise. Apart from her first husband Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., and her second (present) husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a London shipbroker, probably her best friend, next to the Duke of Windsor, remains the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, Felipe Espil ... "My, my!" sighed Ambassador Espil to swank U.S. friends last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 68 Years Ago In Time | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

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