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...salvation for the men whose duties placed them in the reactor control rooms and the turbine and machinery spaces behind the reactors. The flash flooding in the forward part of the Kursk would have caused the bow to drop, pitching the 14,000-ton boat into a steep dive with steam turbines still delivering power to its twin screws. In seconds, the sub would have pounded into the seabed some 350 ft. beneath the storm-driven surface of the Barents Sea with a shock that would have hurled survivors against equipment and bulkheads. Finally, as the boat settled onto...
According to a CNN/TIME poll taken a week before Venter and Collins made their historic announcement, nearly two thirds of Americans wanted to dive into their own genetic material headfirst; 61 percent reported they would want to know if they were predisposed to contracting any particular diseases. But only 22 percent wanted their health insurers to get a peek, and a mere 14 percent were interested in letting Uncle Sam in on the data...
...that foreign direct investment at least does not wash in and out with the economic tides; once turned into bricks, mortar and machinery, it stays put. Portfolio--that is, stock and bond--investment is more volatile. But Lawrence Kudlow, chief economist of CNBC.com points out that the 37% nose dive in the NASDAQ index from its March 10 high to its May 23 low did not appear to scare away much foreign investment--at least not enough to make any difference in the dollar's price. "I was holding my breath on that one," says Kudlow...
...finally be solved. Discovered in only 30 ft. of water some 4 1/2 miles offshore by a dive team sponsored by novelist Clive Cussler (Raise the Titanic!) in 1995, the Hunley's remains will be hoisted from their muddy grave, if all goes well, in the next few weeks and eventually displayed at the Charleston Museum. That will not only be a splendid feat of underwater salvage but may also offer Civil War buffs an answer to what happened on that fateful night 136 years...
...opportunities haunted the Crimson throughout the day. In the next inning, Harvard once again loaded the bases with two outs. Montijo appeared to deliver with a single to right field, but in the near-sighted eyes of the umpires, the throw from the Wildcat right fielder beat Montijo's dive into first...