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...when meltwater covered the land bridge joining the British Isles to the mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the face of the French section of the service tunnel that is being bored 131 ft. below the bed of the Channel waited for a thin steel probe, drilled from the British side, to pierce the wall of chalk marl in front of them. The 2-in.-diameter aperture opened by the probe could not be seen at first, but then the British crew sent a blast of compressed air through the hole, blowing out the last crumbs...
...probe breakthrough confirmed that French and British tunnelers were within striking distance of completing the first tunnel under the English Channel. Measurements taken through the probe hole showed the two approaches were out of line by a horizontal distance of only 20 in. after huge boring machines had chewed their way through 24 miles of undersea chalk. Said a spokesman for TransManche Link, the Anglo-French consortium responsible for design and construction: "It was like throwing out a line to the moon and getting within a 10-ft. circle." The remaining 325 or so feet of chalk separating...
...Senate ethics committee was faced with such fine questions last week in its plodding probe of five Senators who may have gone too far in their attempt to get federal officials off the back of Charles Keating, a generous contributor to their campaigns. Keating, 66, was released on $300,000 bail last week after spending a month in a California jail awaiting trial on charges that he misled investors in his bankrupt Lincoln Savings & Loan, whose failure will cost taxpayers $2 billion. Ten months into its investigation, the committee is still trying to decide whether at least three Democratic Senators...
Burrough is the biggest beneficiary yet of readers' hunger for tales about the pratfalls of the corporate elite. For many other top financial journalists, six-figure book advances have become the rule. Publishers pay handsomely for such potential blockbusters as author Ken Auletta's probe of the television industry, which brought him at least $500,000 and is due on shelves next summer. Connie Bruck, a New Yorker writer, reportedly signed a $400,000 contract for a profile of Time Warner chairman Steven Ross. Other high-priced works in progress include Wall Street exposes by Anthony Bianco of Business Week...
...there anything wrong with forgiving a few "C's" on the records of students who have to balance their time between academics and extracurriculars? Of course not; the admissions office makes allowances for students who are talented musicians and champion debaters. But the Ed. Department probe reveals that Harvard makes far greater allowances for athletics than for non-athletic extracurricular activities. Asian-Americans, for example, make up a disproportionate share of Harvard's orchestras. Obviously Harvard does not think that spending 30 hours per week practicing the violin is as important as similar dedication to football or rowing...