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What the boy will make of this extraordinary history is hard to say. His stepfather has been, variously and with high spirit, a U.S. fighter pilot shot down in the Mediterranean in World War II, a billionaire, an ex-billionaire, a bank robber, a wholehearted lover of women, a convicted killer while still a teenager and, as a result of that, an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium during his high school years. But what he has been most consistently, through all the splendidly entertaining capers and calamities that Helprin invents for him, is what people call, in short...
Driving to a Mediterranean seaport in 1986, Tom Darcy didn't realize he was part of espionage's wave of the future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep...
...doubt many will never be found. The recently discovered painted cave at Cosquer in the south of France, for instance, can be reached only by scuba divers. Its entrance now lies below the surface of the Mediterranean; in the Upper Paleolithic period, from 70,000 B.P. to 10,000 B.P., so much of Europe's water was locked up in glaciers that the sea level was some 300 ft. lower than it is today...
...least three different explosive devices set off during the night caused extensive damage to 66 apartments and businesses owned mostly by mainland French residents and foreigners. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, but authorities suspect separatist militants who have been seeking to end French rule over the Mediterranean island. No deaths or injuries were reported...
...disease, but the new treatment will ameliorate the painful symptoms of sickle cell anemia, which often lead to hospitalization. About 8 percent of black Americans carry the gene that causes sickle cell, an inherited disease common among people with ancestors from Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, that causes the hemoglobin inside red blood cells to clump together...