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Fisher's team found the first certifiable remains of the Atocha in 1973, matching the identifying number on a recovered silver bar with one listed in the ship's manifest in the Seville archives. But because the cargo was scattered over nine linear miles, it took Fisher until 1985--and a total of 6,500 magnetometer hits--to identify what he calls the "mother lode," the ; main body of the ship's cargo. Even then, retrieving the treasure was difficult. The deeper waters off the Florida Keys are murky, the bottom heavily silted. Again, technology provided the solution. Several years...
...incubation period seems to be so long that undergraduates are not likely to manifest the disease until after college. This makes AIDS seem rather remote from the undergraduate experience--and therefore less frightening," says David Herlihy, master of Mather House...
...speedup policy at NASA," says Jerome Lederer, a former director of the space agency's office of manned flight safety, adding, "There are signs that complacency may have set in, and that is not good for safety." Insisted a NASA engineer: "We are being driven by a launch manifest, not hardware capability or concerns about anything else." NASA has in fact been pushing its contractors for faster delivery of shuttle components, and many of these companies have been pressing their employees into working six-day weeks with heavy overtime. But whether the speedup in any way contributed to the Challenger...
Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base are the largest U.S. military installations in any foreign country. With 18,000 men and women on active duty, they manifest the determination of the U.S. to maintain its power in the economically fastest-growing region in the world. Militarily, they project U.S. might all the way to the Persian Gulf and safeguard the sea-lanes through which 80% of the West's strategic raw materials pass...
...most of its history, the Harvard Law School represented an ideal of legal traditions based on intellect and scholarship. In the past few decades the rampant greediness of its professors has become manifest. The Harvard Law School has been, for quite a while, a place from which forays into television, etc., have been launched by its publicity-crazed faculty...