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Zenji Abe was a 25-year-old Zero pilot on his first mission when he attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He continued flying bombing raids until June 1944, when he was shot down and stranded on the Mariana Islands. On Sept. 2, 1945, he paddled a rubber raft to a U.S. ship offshore and signed his recognition of Japan's surrender...
...People here can help [if they] get more information out of the government. I hope that [people will see] that this is just one small fight in a larger picture," said Wellesley College student and Bogota, Columbia native Mariana Mejia...
...what about at the other end? From Harvard to the FBI is a less frequently documented move. What about those of us who dream of one day donning the badge? You have to be a U.S. citizen--or a citizen of the Northern Mariana Islands--between the ages of 23 and 36. You have to be willing to go wherever the FBI wants to send you. You have to have uncorrected vision no worse than 20/200 and nearly perfect corrected vision. You can't be color-blind, and you have to be able to drive. You must have graduated from...
Ring in the millennial New Year as you plumb the 11,275-meter-deep Mariana Trench in the opulently appointed luxury submarine The Jubilee...
...incessantly. They were scolds, know-it-alls, flatterers, braggarts, blowhards, loudmouths, balloon-juice merchants--choose your epithet. They were in love with the sound of their own voice. They wouldn't shut up. You could gag them with terry cloth, wrap them in cellophane, dump them in the Mariana Trench--you could plug your ears with a Walkman and crank up a Def Leppard CD to 10--and still you'd hear the little tinny yap-yap of some office seeker promising cleaner streets, safer subways, cavity-free teeth. There was no end to the talking. It was inescapable, depressing...