Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Signals from beeper-equipped tigers have revealed that they dive much deeper than anyone had suspected--as far down as 1,000 ft. and back within 15 min.--and that they can swim in an absolutely straight line for miles at a time. "Every time you get a chance to follow a shark around in its natural environment," marvels Holland, "you get a new, incredible insight...
...first color footage of life in the deep. For the wiry, red-capped Frenchman, exploring every nook and cranny of every ocean on the globe for such hugely popular television series as "The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau" came as easily as love at first sight. "When you dive, you begin to feel that you're an angel," he explained in a recent interview. "It's a liberation of your weight." Thanks to Cousteau, even diehard landlubbers could float, if only briefly, like angels...
...White House, which in the midst of the Paula Jones battle has no desire to see a few days of televised hearings about adultery or anything else sensational before the Senate. And so the chances of Ralston's securing the nomination seem to be in a fatal dive. The Pentagon is screening a handful of new candidates for the post, examining their backgrounds with a fine-toothed comb for any sexual improprieties. The last-minute choice can only hope he has a history but no past...
...very ruling that took the case out of the deep freeze it had been in for almost three years sharpened the pressure on both sides to work out a settlement that would head off the final dive into the sewer. It was a bizarre negotiation, carried on in large part on TV news shows by lawyers who insisted they were not negotiating. What then were they doing? Issuing threats about how nasty they could make things while simultaneously dropping heavy hints about what kind of settlement might satisfy them. In other words, negotiating...
Determined that the fall was simply a minor setback, I arrived on move-in day ready to dive into my Harvard career. However, by the time my crutches and I made it to Tercentenary Theater for opening convocation, I was ready to turn around and give up. In every way, Harvard just seemed so big, a place where, at best, I would anonymously blend in the with the crowd and where, at worst, I would be the slowpoke on crutches who was left behind in every activity...