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Last Tuesday, Brown and Labor Secretary Robert Reich were attending a two-day Group of Seven conference in the French city of Lille. Poised to descend the grand stairway at their hotel, both men suddenly realized they were being watched by a crowd of reporters and photographers below. Brown leaned over to Reich and offered the kind of quip that captured his instinct for politics, his sense of timing and his self-deprecating humor. "The only way people will think we are doing something important," he told Reich, "is if we stand up straight, walk fast and let our arms...
...weeks, we will begin a national debate about the future and promise of our nation. Politicians of all stripes will descend on the states of Iowa and New Hampshire to peddle their visions of tomorrow and to convince the American people that they are the most worthy of the Presidency and the Oval Office...
More than 500 people from around the country are expected to descend on the Business School campus this weekend for the school's largest student club-sponsored event this year...
...inside too: the ground-floor museum, founded by the late Malcolm Forbes Sr., is stuffed with presidential autographs, czarist Faberge eggs and toy soldiers. From this improbable aerie, Forbes' eldest son Malcolm ("Steve") Forbes Jr., the 48-year-old editor in chief of Forbes magazine, plans to descend into the scrum of Republican presidential politics. He could announce his candidacy as early as this week...
Underwater vehicles date back at least to 1620. But it wasn't until Barton's bathysphere came along that scientists could descend to any respectable depth. The Bathysphere eventually took Barton and zoologist William Beebe to a record 3,028 ft., off Bermuda. But it wasn't at all maneuverable: it could only go straight down and straight back up again. Swiss engineer Auguste Piccard solved the mobility problem with the first true submersible, a dirigible-like vessel called a bathyscaphe, which consisted of a spherical watertight cabin suspended below a buoyant gasoline-filled pontoon. (A submersible is simply...