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...long and meticulous search, Fisher's salvaging team used the most advanced underwater detection machinery available. Side-scanning sonar, similar to the type used in finding the black boxes of the Air-India crash, provided a detailed chart of the ocean floor. A high-speed magnetometer located the ferrous metals commonly found in old cannons, muskets and ship fittings. The crew also employed a method that Fisher devised for scouring the ocean bottom: huge pipes are placed at a salvage ship's stern near the propellers, which drive jets of water through the cylinders, helping to uncover buried objects under...
...importance of the investment is finally dawning on China's threadbare state-owned enterprises. At CEIBS, nearly half the executive M.B.A. students are funded by state firms like China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry and China Eastern Airlines. The very notion of such specialized training is something of a social revolution. In the past, managers at state enterprises worked their way up the factory line to an office after a couple decades of dedicated but not necessarily distinguished service. "I have committed 13 years to my company," says Hou Yunfu, 35, an engineer whose ceibs tuition is paid by China National...
...bitter note. The ironic revelation is his specialty: "Uncle Frank . . . had confidence in himself and had acquired important skills. We knew that because just a week ago he had been giving evidence . . . as a witness for the Prosecution. His expert field was the identification and valuation of non-ferrous scrap metal . . . It must have been at about that time, I think, that he began his remarkably long career as an embezzler." The failed playwright remembers his debut: "After the first act I wanted very much to leave." A colleague gives him "the job of editing a disastrous manuscript...
...Braak is a spectacular new find, but scarcely the only one. Other salvors are finding sunken treasure by using computerized navigational devices and techniques developed for oil exploration and military navigation. Magnetometers, often used to detect ferrous metals, can pinpoint such common shipboard fittings as iron nails, barrel staves and anchors...
...wrote and edited large parts of ten other books, ranging in subject from international control of non-ferrous metals to the impact of television on American culture...