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...ocean floor, openings along the keel would probably no longer have been able to draw in seawater needed to cool the reactors. Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into the core and shutting them down. The Kursk, its shattered bow shoved into a furrow of sand and heeling to port, lay silent, without power or heat or light or hope, its 118 souls dead or doomed...
...shot in the fairway and his approach shot to the safest part of the green. Woods knows he isn't a great bunker player (yet) and that the ones at St. Andrews--112 of them--are especially treacherous. So he worked hard to keep his ball out of the sand and was the one player to do so for 72 holes. He followed the example of Nicklaus, who when he had a good lead through three rounds would play conservatively and, as Harmon puts it, "let others make mistakes." So confident was Woods, with a 6-shot lead through...
...there aren't enough bathrooms to go around--and there never are--be 10 times as fastidious as you are at home, especially if sand or shaving is involved...
...tourists on board--bound for New York City, most of them to board a cruise to the Caribbean--were remembered at the crash site late in the week by family members, who, in their sadness, leaned on one another and knelt on the ground, sifting the sand. Air France gave each family roughly $20,000 and covered burial and counseling expenses...
...killer in tropical climes--and there is hardly a penny to be earned. Those patients don't have health insurance. That is why the Gates Foundation has made finding a malaria vaccine a priority, along with eradicating scourges such as hookworm, hepatitis B, leishmaniasis (a parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies that affects 15 million people a year), HIV, guinea-worm disease and tuberculosis. The foundation is spending nearly $400 million a year on its global-health initiative, mainly by developing new vaccines and cures and making existing cures more available to the people who need them...