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During the chemists' eight-month hunt, they scouted 19th century riverboats and pawed through the dusty corners of historical museums. The most promising sources are objects that were originally sealed against moisture, such as navigational compasses, hourglasses, sextants and telescopes. Other possibilities include buried time capsules, hollow building cornerstones, miniature globes and sealed containers salvaged from a ship that sank in the Missouri River in the mid-1800s. Two venerable Connecticut companies, which have manufactured hollow brass military buttons since the War of 1812, have offered to supply buttons spanning two centuries. "This gives us samples from many different periods...
...jets frequently between London, where he controls Cavenham holding company, Paris, where he owns the magazine L'Express, and New York City, where he watches over his Grand Union grocery-store chain. Goldsmith, 52, last week added another stop to his travels: San Francisco. He emerged victorious after an eight-month battle for Crown Zellerbach, the $3 billion California-based paper and forestry giant, and was named chairman of the board. Goldsmith now controls 51.3% of Crown's 27.4 million outstanding shares, and his investment partnership, General Oriental Securities, will get six of eleven seats on the board of directors...
...sounding board and strategist, helping the Milanese media mogul navigate Rome's innermost circles of influence. Their partnership dates back to the mid-1980s when Berlusconi hired Letta - already a Christian Democratic power broker - as the point man in Rome for his Fininvest holding corporation. During Berlusconi's eight-month stint as Prime Minister in 1994, Letta joined his political staff but not his Forza Italia. Today, Letta remains aloof from party politics. One senior Italian diplomat who has known Letta since the 1970s calls him "a perfect example of soft power." He brings a velvet touch to a government...
...medical student who hasn't yet picked up a gun or earned the nickname Che (a casual Argentinian slang word, like "O.K." or "buddy"). Part road movie, part coming-of-age story, the film is based on the journals that Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado kept on their eight-month journey across Latin America in 1952, from Buenos Aires through Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. The motorcycle of the title, a beat-up 1939 Norton 500 optimistically named the Mighty One, only makes it as far as Los Angeles, Chile, but stubbornness and curiosity keep the adventurers moving toward...
...Atta visited the INS in May 2001 looking for a visa extension for one of his companions, but ended up with the INS discovering Atta himself had improperly received an eight-month visa, until Sept. 8, 2001, that was then rolled back to July 9. INS personnel who dealt with the Atta group then could not identify one of the men with him. But the ?Terrorist Travel? staff monograph released yesterday said that, based on other evidence, the commission believes that fellow hijacker Ziad Jarrah ?may have been? with Atta...