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...scientists and two crew members from the parent research vessel Seward Johnson took turns making the twice-daily three-hour dives in the Sea-Link. Originally built for ocean submersion, the craft had to be packed with a special foam embedded with air-filled glass bubbles to provide the greater buoyancy needed in less dense fresh water. The Sea-Link looks more like an underwater helicopter than a submarine. It has a bubble-like cockpit that seats the pilot and a scientist, and its nine reversible thrusters allow it to move in any direction or hover in place. Cameras...
...plot resembles the save-the-homestead movies released last year: the farm is hopelessly insolvent but is sought by developers. Shepard, however, does not indulge in sentiment about vanishing ways of life. His focus is on familial stealth and cunning, on betrayals of husband by wife, brother by sister, parent by child. In the end, none of them gets away. Their dreams, like most dreams in Shepard's plays, culminate in explosive violence...
...place. The rotation would set up so that Tim Wakefield, the 10-year vet-longest tenure on the team-would pitch the home opener at the Fens, on the mid-April day when the Sox would receive their rings. This pleased me no end. I feel proud like a parent (and fearful like a parent) whenever Wakefield toes the rubber and prepares to lob that flutterball of his. He's my favorite on the team, and has been for some time. More on Tim shortly...
...learned about their town's budget, debated various proposals for bridges, roads, parks and sewage-treatment plants, and then voted (through a second, identical questionnaire) on which 10 to build. Usually, such decisions are reserved for Communist Party officials conferring behind closed doors. But cadres in Zeguo and its parent city, Wenling, have pioneered a more participatory approach, putting them at the vanguard of China's experiments in political reform. President Hu Jintao has vowed never to adopt "Western-style" democracy. "But events like Zeguo's referendum, though isolated, may someday form the basis for China's gradual political liberalization...
Sitting behind a gleaming, curved desk in his New York City office, Allen Neuharth picks up the day's issue of USA Today, the terse, rainbow-colored newspaper that he created and nurtures. "We stole most of this from somebody else," says Neuharth, chairman of the Gannett Co., parent firm of USA Today. "Most of the content ideas, the packaging, color and graphics are the result of what television and the newsmagazines have been doing for a long time." Leaning back in his chair, Neuharth, 61, turns to the paper's full-page weather map. "This is a direct, absolute...