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Johnson is from Ocean City, N.J., where she went to a high school that she estimates is about 7 percent black...
Visitors to the grotto-like Ocean Learning World experience the mysteries of the sea. Wending their way through a dank cavern, they are suddenly plunged into an aquatic research center lined with industrial-steel walls and exposed pipes. There they can park themselves in a yellow submarine once used for deep-sea exploration or watch wet-suited guides equipped with scuba gear investigate a simulated shipwreck in an 85,000-gal. tank...
...designed for. The flight data recovered indicates only that until then it had been an "uneventful" flight, according to NTSB chairman Jim Hall. More than anything else, the data from the first black box only emphasizes the need to recover the second one - the voice-data recorder - from the ocean floor...
...tape, which had been damaged while under water, remain to be deciphered. But even then, investigators now know that the recorder stopped working late in the dive, but before - according to radar data - the plane climbed more than a mile and a half before its final plunge into the ocean. So Wednesday's press conference was mostly a heads-up to the media on the fact that investigators have more questions than answers...
...same latitude as Chicago, and Paris is about as far north as North Dakota. More snow will fall, and the bright snow cover will reflect more of the sun's energy back into space, making life even chillier. Beyond that, the Gulf Stream is tied into other ocean currents, and shutting it down could rearrange things in a way that would cause less overall evaporation. Because atmospheric H20 is an important greenhouse gas, its loss would mean even more dramatic cooling--a total of perhaps as much as 8[degrees]C (17[degrees...