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...indeed a submarine, a gray-hulled North Korean Sang-O class, 325-ton boat, and it was jammed onto a reef, rolling helplessly in the surf. Lee's discovery touched off one of postwar South Korea's biggest manhunts as tens of thousands of troops pursued up to 26 North Koreans who had been aboard the sub. By week's end 20 of them were dead, one was in custody and at least one, possibly seven, was still at large in the area's wild mountains. In separate clashes with North Koreans, three South Korean soldiers were killed...
...installations and civilian preparedness. On Sept. 15 they put three men ashore to observe the Kangnung airport while the sub cruised back and forth along the coastline. They picked up the three spies last Tuesday and were intending to head for home when the sub ran aground on the reef...
While the evidence for the decline of reefs is based on observations of only a few hundred reefs out of uncounted thousands, scientists around the world are becoming increasingly alarmed. Already, some experts estimate, 10% of the earth's reefs have been mortally wounded. Thirty percent are in critical shape and may die within the next 10 to 20 years. And an additional 30% are coming under such sustained attack that they may perish by the year 2050. "I used to be reluctant to say the sky was falling," says paleobiologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute near...
...They strap on diving gear and swim with manatees (they're the sea cows), giggling as they scratch the animals, because manatees, we learn, love to be scratched. In another episode, the brothers roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site", we watch as a sea cucumber (an animal, actually) eats its lunch. Interspersed throughout the episodes are amusing bits of animation like "Stupid Things Not to Do with Animals" (example: "Never wear a poisonous snake as a necktie...
...layer of snow, part of the landscape, and the dogs could frolic among us, within the snow. Our vision would be crysalline and white, as if we were under the sea though specifically not scuba diving. If we were under the sea, we would be constructing a reef, not building it with our hands but supplying it with our bodies as building material. We would be the snow reef and the snow reef would be us. A living, unified organism within the snow. Bobcats and dogs would prowl...