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Determining that the coast was clear at periscope depth of about 18 m, Waddle directed the sub to dive to about 122 m. Once there, the skipper ordered the blow. A pair of landlubbers?overseen by sailors?had their hands on the controls that guide the submarine and empty its ballast tanks during the rapid ascent. But it was physics, not civilians, that shot the submarine to the surface. The Ehime Maru?half as long as the 110-m sub and only 7% of the weight?didn't stand a chance. The impact only scratched the submarine's hull. Although...
...crew told me it was like driving Dad's car. You learn the basics after a week. After three months, a sailor should be proficient enough so the diving officer doesn't constantly have to prompt. Dad's car, however, didn't weigh 17,000 tons. The sub responded sluggishly when I moved the wheel. I also had to steer three-dimensionally. The wheel not only turned left and right, but to point the boat down or up, I had to push the wheel in or pull it to my chest. What's more, the sub has two steering wheels...
...combination of democracy and a frog march to a market economy turned Russia into a gangster's paradise, while the majority of its people suffer worse material deprivations than they had endured under communism. (Incidentally, the report sees little chance of Russia's pulling out of its precipitous dive.) One of the most dangerous scenarios for U.S. interests in Asia, Global Trends warns, is the disintegration of the Chinese state. Read between the lines on that one, and you'll know that democracy is unlikely to be the predominant concern of U.S.-Chinese relations over the next two decades...
...early word from the Pentagon today is that if this latest crash has the same cause as April's - i.e., the hand-picked pilots inadvertently let the aircraft slip into a deadly situation from which they could not recover - the MV-22 may be in a fatal dive itself...
...first period was uneventful for Ruddock until the final three minutes, when Harvard coughed up the puck in its own end. Brown center Meredith Ostrander took a shot from point-blank range marked for an open part of the net, but the Harvard netminder was able to dive down and knock the puck away with her pads...