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...then he was informed that the test results were ambiguous. "My mind has been going 200 miles an hour," he says. His eyes illustrate his point, darting around the room; his hands fly in all directions. "When you are close to knowing you are going to die, even a glass of water is very meaningful. I always want to remember how it felt. I am trying to understand why we die. Trying to get used to the idea and accept...
...scientists and two crew members from the parent research vessel Seward Johnson took turns making the twice-daily three-hour dives in the Sea-Link. Originally built for ocean submersion, the craft had to be packed with a special foam embedded with air-filled glass bubbles to provide the greater buoyancy needed in less dense fresh water. The Sea-Link looks more like an underwater helicopter than a submarine. It has a bubble-like cockpit that seats the pilot and a scientist, and its nine reversible thrusters allow it to move in any direction or hover in place. Cameras...
...October of 1947, when he found that the people around had begun to speak and act like savages." The assassination of John F. Kennedy reaches this region as a rumor, and a fairly incredible one at that. The slain President's last name sounds like the Tamil word for glass. "Could any man give himself such a name?" asks one local skeptic...
...what have Kings that privates have not too, save ceremony?" asked Shakespeare. Well, for starters, stretch limousines. All week long, shiny automotive chariots plied the broad avenues of Manhattan, bottling up traffic and leaving crowds of normally blaséNew Yorkers gawking. Hidden behind the limos' smoked-glass windows were leaders of 68 nations, convened to celebrate the 40th birthday of the United Nations...
...oldest part of town and features Internet access, excellent cuisine and a first-rate wine list. The oldest vintage dates back to 1704 (yours for a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. As I swirled my glass and dipped crusts of dense rye bread into my Riesling-and-cheese soup, an oompah band pounded in the distance--a perfect German winery experience...