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...Blue Lagoon...
...THEORY that Americans won't sit still for two hours of National Geographic outtakes, the producers of Blue Lagoon added the following to their film...
...baroque library of the 17th century former Benedictine monastery on San Giorgio Maggiore island, a few minutes across the lagoon by launch from the Hotel Cipriani, that Carter finally had to confront the collective misgivings of America's allies: the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy and West Germany and a delegation representing the caretaker government of Japan. On the official agenda were perennial economic woes, including recession, inflation and rising oil costs. But the most troublesome differences were on an unofficial agenda of international politics, complicated by personal chemistry: French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing feels...
Other projects that have received funding range from $39,000 for a windmill in an abandoned area of New York's South Bronx that provides the electricity to turn vegetable waste into compost, to $7,450 for an artificial lagoon in Hercules, Calif., to purify water and make methane gas. This year Robert Witkoff, 40, an industrial designer and builder of electric cars in Glen Cove, N.Y., is asking for $50,000 to help develop an integrated windmill system that would use gently blowing breezes both to drive household appliances and to recharge the batteries of an electric...
...scene might have been an outtake from Creature from the Black Lagoon: a lone figure stumbles from the water covered in yellow guck and with a swollen eye. Except that there were hundreds of spectators on the beach, and they cheered when Diana Nyad came ashore last week in Jupiter, Fla., the first person ever to swim from the Bahamas to the U.S. "I feel like the F train in New York just ran over me, but emotionally I'm exhilarated," exulted Nyad between sips of champagne and whiffs of oxygen. The marathoner attempted the feat three weeks...