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...month to watch craftsmen shape the first stone. Cisic estimates reconstruction will require 18 months to complete. Other wounds will take longer to heal. Muslims and Croats still lead separate lives in Mostar, but the project does at least represent a small ray of hope. Emir Balic, 67, a diver who leapt more than 1,000 times from the top of the span into the shallow waters as part of an annual competition, says he now plans to do so one more time: "People will at least gather around the bridge and talk again," he says. "Time will help...
...These walls off Selayar can be explored solely by scuba divers. The seafloor starts its descent to the continental shelf a few meters below the waves, then rapidly turns vertical and beyond the reach of even the most deep-lunged of snorkelers. The sensation during that first wall dive is somewhere between giddiness and terror. Floating above an abyss populated by the flickering forms of deepwater sea creatures takes some getting used to, but distractions abound. The wall is covered with a moving mosaic of fat, brown sea cucumbers, vivid corals, shrinking anemones and tiny, glittering fish. The deeper...
...Eventually Hollywood paged her. For her debut, as a pearl-diver in "Boy on a Dolphin," she emerged from the sea in a clinging outfit that, when I was about 12, instantly induced puberty. But Loren had the whole package: swan neck, laughing voice, a poise and perfect posture rare among tall women and, not least, the gift to inhabit any role, serious or silly, as if she'd been born there. For me, Loren was Italian cinema incarnate - until Claudia Cardinale came along, and then Stefania Sandrelli. The Italian-actress assembly line just kept producing masterpieces...
Princeton freshman Kent DeMond, the meet’s most outstanding diver, won the three-meter diving event while Harvard sophomore Roy Enrique placed fourth—securing the Tigers’ advantage going into the final event—the 400 freestyle relay...
...team’s banquet in April, junior Christin McConnell received the Spirit Award, sophomore Renee Paradise picked up the John Walker Award honoring the team’s outstanding diver, senior Lauren Fabian earned the Nancy Sato Award for commitment to the team and Lee and junior Jane Humphries grabbed the Coach’s Awards. The banquet gave the seniors a final chance to celebrate the outstanding conclusion to their careers...