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Those who did survive the initial flooding would have come to envy the dead. Dying always seems more gruesome when it is in slow motion, and slow-motion submarine deaths are perversely compelling because they happen in shallow water within reach of rescuers. Men who have been trapped in stricken submarines say the crew of the Kursk would have suffered from cold as temperatures fell to 41[degrees]F and from severe headaches as levels of carbon dioxide rose in the smothering atmosphere. They would have suffered too from fear and hopelessness as rescuers repeatedly tried, and failed, to save...
...lieutenants are quick to counter that everyone thought they were crazy to try to make markets in gas and electricity. And Enron, after all, is a company that thrives on entrepreneurial defiance of convention. Many of its new ventures were started because managers simply set new ideas in motion without waiting for approval from the top. Even the online operation was cobbled together in a mere seven months. Skilling and Lay found out about EnronOnline only two weeks before it went live...
...Concorde's grounding came after British and French authorities investigating the July 25 crash of Air France's Flight 4590 that killed 113 people reached a preliminary conclusion that the accident was set in motion by a ruptured tire. Pierced by a strip of metal, the tire virtually exploded, sending bits of rubber into the huge fuel tanks in the Concorde's wings. "It is clear to us all that a tire burst alone should never cause a loss of a public-transport aircraft," said Sir Malcolm Field, head of Britain's Civil Aviation Authority. The British say the Concordes...
...pattern is familiar. A year ago, a 17 November hitman was injured while launching a rocket against the residence of the German ambassador. Police found drops of his blood and collected it as evidence. Then everything went into slow motion. U.S. officials claim it took four months for a Greek police crime lab to type the blood. And when it did, says the State Department in an intelligence report issued in May, the authorities "did not follow up aggressively, and made no arrest...
...preparing for the Byron Nelson Classic near Dallas, and had worked his way up from wedge shots to the middle irons. Then suddenly, on one swing, he sensed--for the first time in a year--that he had done exactly what he had been trying to accomplish. The motion felt natural and relaxed, and the contact solid. The ball flew high and straight...