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PARIS: Died: Jacques Cousteau, who brought the fantastic, muticolored undersea world of ice formations, shipwrecks and just plain mackerel to America's television masses, after more than 60 years of underwater exploration. "Jacques-Yves Cousteau has rejoined the World of Silence," the Cousteau Foundation succinctly announced, leaving unstated the cause of the 87-year-old oceanographer's death. As a child, Cousteau was notable for his passion for breaking high school windows. As an adult, after completing France's prestigious Naval Academy, he poured that energy into inventing the aqualung, building the first manned undersea colonies, and floating for more...
...those, with winds estimated at more than 260 m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile...
...time they had to meet the standards of the past and in much the same way. That's asking a lot. The more time students devote to learning, the more they learn. Research also indicates that how time is used is very important. We ought to stop denying these plain facts and find time for students to succeed...
...past three months, we've been getting plain grilled chicken. It's tasteless. It pisses me off," says Young Byun...
...like the plain yellow stuff, you know--French's Mustard. They have it in the little packets, but it's just not the same," he says...