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...some Americans, though, the Japanese feel a need to go all the way to the deepest reaches of the ocean. A case in point was Kaiko's dive to the bottopm of the Challenger Deep. JAMSTEC engineers watched anxiously on a video screen, the robotic craft spent 35 min. at a depth of 35,798 ft.--2 ft. shy of Trieste's 1960 record. But during that brief visit, Kaiko saw a sea slug, a worm and a shrimp, proof that even the most inhospitable place on earth is home to a variety of creatures. Next winter Kaiko will return...
...wall realism, The Real World has drawn criticism for being too artificial and contrived. Indeed, the show employs a story department -- a team of three writers who outline a plot for each week's 22-min. episode, culled from hundreds of hours of filmed footage. "We storyboard each scene," says Bunim, "just like in a prime-time series." Notes Murray: "This isn't Frederick Wiseman, where you're going to get a long, incoherent documentary with way more than you want...
...water politicking as to his seamanship. His clout with yacht-club cronies led to a new interpretation of the rules, allowing him to replace a broken keel with a better model. Hours before the last semifinals race, in which he would have been eliminated in a 5-min. rout by the mostly women's team aboard Mighty Mary, Conner negotiated a deal to turn the two-boat finals into a three-boat series. In his last finals race, Conner must have cut a deal with an even higher authority: his Stars & Stripes found a mysterious breeze that allowed...
Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes overcame a huge 4-min. deficit to blow by Mighty Mary after a patch of dead air literally took the wind out of the sails of the first mostly female America's Cup team. Conner thus won the right to sail as an underdog against challenger Team New Zealand...
Sunday Router Shutdown Causes 45 min. Interruption...