Word: quests
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MYSTERIES OF THE OCEAN TO EXPLORE THE EARTH'S OCEANS, going where no man has walked before, has always been a romantic theme on a par with exploring space [COVER STORY, Aug. 14]. Like the space program, the quest for a better understanding of the ocean is about human ingenuity and the ability to adapt. Why not use NASA's expertise to put a man on the floor of the ocean at its utmost depth before 2010? PETER ZEMELKA Cocoa Beach, Florida...
...there be anything more tiresome than hearing--or reading--about someone else's quest for spiritual enlightenment? Such accounts always tend toward the deeply sincere and the totally humorless. Anita Desai is therefore an intrepid novelist indeed; her Journey to Ithaca (Knopf; 312 pages; $23) traces the pilgrimages of not one but three seekers after truth, spelled with a capital...
...afford to explore these questions, of course, and while most expeditions are made up of scientists from many lands, the world's deep-sea powers--the U.S., France, Japan and, until economic troubles all but ended its program, Russia--are always aware of who's ahead in the quest for the bottom. At the moment, it's probably Japan, not least because of the triumphant touchdown in the Challenge Deep last March of its 10.5-ton, $41.5 million ROV called Kaiko. The Japanese got into ocean research well after the French, Americans and Russians. But the country has made...
...Last fall, when Congress was considering a trade pact Perot despised, he threatened to form a new national party as punishment to the political establishment. When Congress approved GATT anyway, chapters of Perot's United We Stand America enthusiastically prepared for a fresh adventure with their hero. But the quest never got under way. Perot, to the chagrin of his fans and in an about-face reminiscent of his on-again, off-again, on-again 1992 presidential campaign, had come to the conclusion that it was quixotic. This weekend, when thousands of U.W.S.A. members convene in Dallas for what Perot...
...Serb forces break every "treaty" put forward as they continue on their quest for total genocide. Meanwhile, the world just stands by and watches the Serb forces wreak havoc and destruction. The U.N. has totally disgraced itself in its handling of the situation. There is too much politics involved, and no true action. MICHAEL MARKOWSKI Newark, Delaware Via E-mail...