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...cause of the 87-year-old oceanographer's death. As a child, Cousteau was notable for his passion for breaking high school windows. As an adult, after completing France's prestigious Naval Academy, he poured that energy into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more than 40 years over the sea floor in The Calypso, a refitted mine-sweeper from which Cousteau shot the 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...
...staged media leaks and risky arguments. Now, it seems even McVeigh has turned on his lawyer: Legal sources tell CNN that McVeigh is considering using "quality of attorneys" as one avenue for his appeal, despite the fact that his defense cost taxpayers $10 million. If that doesn?t float, other issues under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart of the bombing in which McVeigh was a mere pawn and the restriction on using the FBI Inspector General's scathing report on the FBI crime...
...whitewater float trips, just me and my father, when I was a teenager," says Sarah Niebuhr, who lives in Jackson, Wyo., and is a special-education teacher and education diagnosticist...
...turn to drugs and whatever else will give them the dopamine rush, either as a misguided way of connecting or to deaden the pain of being disconnected. But cravings, though reflected in physiology, are rooted in loss and live in thoughts and in the stories we tell ourselves. They float through the mind like a poisonous cloud and plague us with a sense of need and visions of what "might have been." ROBERT GREENWAY Olympic Ecopsychology Institute Port Townsend, Wash...
...line with Harvard's "every tub on its own bottom" tradition, each of Harvard's graduate schools has chosen a different course to float through retirement challenges. The measurable effect of the new retirement law varies by school, but one thing remains constant: No plans are in place to change retirement policy anytime soon anywhere in the University...