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...tiny craft probed a corridor 10 miles long by 1 mile wide for several days, gradually narrowing the search area as it scanned the bottom for wreckage. On Friday, the Scarab 1 first detected the distinctive electronic pinging signals emitted by flight recorders but could not fix their location. Then, at 2 a.m. last Tuesday, the engineers hit the jackpot: on their video screens they saw the downed plane's voice recorder on the ocean floor, 6,700 ft. below. Maneuvering the sub closer by firing small bursts from its thrusters, they gingerly extended one of Scarab's mechanical arms...
Next day, after searching for only two hours, Scarab 1 located the data recorder about a quarter of a mile from the spot where the first box had been found. Engineers at the site expressed surprise that the craft had been able to operate so well at a depth from which only a handful of successful recoveries have ever been made. The Scarab, which is designed to dive to 6,000 ft., had never before worked so far below the ocean surface...
...office hits. Offscreen, however, veteran Actor Don Ameche, 77, seems already to have found his own fountain of youth. He reports he performed the movie's swan dives and jackknives in "all but a fraction of a shot." His secret: "a lot of hard work," including a daily five-mile walk and a 20-to-25-minute aerobics workout most mornings. For 35 years he has limited himself to a one-meal-a-day diet. Ameche would rather spend more time with his six children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren than make another movie. But he has no intention...
...reveals his characters in snatches of dialogue: "--Will you listen to me? Trying to tell you they're taking you to court here, anybody comes to the door don't open it. Stumpp serving a summons on you some seedy process server comes to the door tell them a mile away, some down at the heels hopeless looking bastard they get seven dollars a summons he has to hand it to you, has to touch you with it, see some burnt out case out here on the doorstep you open it and all he says is Mrs Booth? hits...
...rugged Dolomite mountains, tourists were returning to their hotels for lunch last Friday. Shortly afternoon, there was a rumbling in the ground, followed by a cloud of white dust that some mistook for smoke. "I thought it was an earthquake," said one survivor. "The mountainside exploded." Less than a mile north of the village, a pair of earthen dams had suddenly collapsed. An avalanche of water, mud and debris swept through Stava, scarring the mountainsides, destroying three hotels, burying homes and scattering bodies in its path. The deluge, some 100 ft. high and 150 ft. wide, left between...