Word: jacquese
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French President Jacques Chirac is prepared to go through with controversial nuclear tests in the South Pacific at any moment despite waves of protest around the world today, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports. This afternoon, French navy commandos stormed two Greenpeace ships and arrested two divers near the South Pacific...
Clinton is such a golf enthusiast that he occasionally forgets that others don't always share his passion. During last month's Bosnia crisis, Clinton tracked down French President Jacques Chirac in Morocco for an important phone consultation. "Give my highest regards to the King," Clinton told Chirac, referring to...
None of these societies is Nirvana. Indeed, the anthropological record provides little support for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and rather more for Thomas Hobbes' assertion that life for our distant ancestors was "nasty, brutish, and short." The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon has written of his first...
For these reasons the modern age of deep-sea exploration had to wait for two key technological developments: engineer Otis Barton's 1930 invention of the bathysphere--essentially a deep-diving tethered steel ball--and the invention of scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
The Trieste, which took U.S. Navy Lieut. Don Walsh and Piccard's son Jacques into the Challenger Deep, was only the third bathyscaphe ever built, and unlike modern submersibles--which bristle with advanced underwater cameras, grabbers, collection baskets and manipulator arms--it carried nothing but its passengers. Its mission was...