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Recounting the highlights of what has already become the most celebrated feat of underwater exploration, Ballard revealed some startling new information. His deep-diving craft failed to find the 300-ft. gash that, according to legend, was torn in the Titanic's hull when the ship plowed into the iceberg. Instead, he suggested, the collision had buckled the ship's plates, allowing water to pour in. He also brought back evidence that the ship broke apart not when she hit bottom, as he had thought when viewing the first Titanic images last September, but as she sank: the stern, which...
...young man facing death for having premarital sex and his sister who finds that yielding her own virginity is the only way to save him. Larry Paulsen, who displays range as the clownish Touchstone in As You Like It and as Titus' loyal brother, brings off an even trickier feat in Measure: allowing a modern audience to enjoy as fully as Elizabethan groundlings must have the dimwit puns and malapropisms of the hapless constable Elbow...
Despite that lofty feat, last week's flight was only a warm-up. In September, Rutan and Yeager, an experienced pilot and design engineer, will try to shatter the open course record of 12,532 miles by flying Voyager on a twelve-day, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world...
This first novel by a previously unknown author has managed to climb quickly onto best-seller lists. Such a feat is infrequent enough to prompt the question why. True, The Good Mother garnered some enthusiastic reviews, and the publisher, evidently sensing a winner, launched a barrage of advertising and publicity. But if this sort of support automatically spelled success, the nation would be crawling with best sellers. Genuine word-of-mouth, pass-along reader enthusiasm cannot be sustained by ads alone. Books that seemingly come out of nowhere to capture wide audiences do so primarily because they offer exactly what...
...uniform and spikes, Clemens phoned his family and said, "I'm in the Hall of Fame!" and promised an early visit to the baseball museum to observe his former equipment. With a fastball timed at 93-to-97 m.p.h., he has a legitimate shot at winning 30, a feat accomplished just once (Denny McLain in 1968) in more than a half-century...