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...especially in matters of boat safety. Two people lost their lives while sailing Cyrano under charter: a scuba diver died in the Caribbean, and an ad executive fell overboard and drowned in the Hudson River while the boat was being used for a corporate cocktail party. The most serious mishap during Cyrano's trip to Spain was a gash suffered by one of the crew when a spinning winch handle hit him in the head...
...year 2025. Tarot Card Reader Johanna Okovic predicted an earthquake in New York City in 1978 and a war between 2011 and 2016. Astrologer Leah O'Leary, Michael's wife, forecast a "naval conflict" in 1979, floods on both the East and West coasts and a "nuclear mishap...
...recent Environmental Protection Agency study has reaffirmed what many have long argued--that anyone who falls into the Charles River by some mishap should quietly accept the University Health Service's anecdote: a tetanus shot...
...safe as human ingenuity and diligence can make them. Critics who can help in that process are welcome regardless of which side of the nuclear argument they are on. Whatever the odds, the reality of a serious nuclear accident would be catastrophic. It might take only one such mishap to force an indefinite shutdown of the entire nuclear power industry. The U.S. needs nuclear plants and can afford the costs of making them safe; what it cannot afford is a major accident...
Producer Harold Prince and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim are men of giant daring, gifts and vision. In Company and Follies, they gave the U.S. musical theater new horizons. The corollary of valorous risks is the occasional mishap. Pacific Overtures might be called Prince and Sondheim's moonwalk musical. They land, but the dramatic terrain proves to be as arid and airless as the moon...