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...etched his place in the nation?s heart at the funeral of his own father was to be buried at sea Thursday, along with his wife and sister-in-law. The bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette were found Wednesday on the ocean floor off Martha?s Vineyard, four days after their small plane crashed on a Friday-night flight to the Massachusetts island. Following a request by the Kennedy family, which the Pentagon granted, the Navy destroyer USS Briscoe was dispatched to the area in anticipation of a burial at sea. The bodies...
Independence-minded Tibetans may have taken heart from signs of a credibility gap in China?s military threats, but on Tuesday they received news that could set back their struggle for decades: China announced that it had found the world?s highest oil field, 15,000 feet above sea level in the disputed territory. "China would be even less likely to consider relaxing its grip on a Tibet with oil fields," says Dowell. "This is not good news for the Dalai Lama." For most nations, striking oil is counted as a blessing; for Tibetans it may be a curse...
Salmon has omega-3 acids, and so do plenty of other fish. But not all sea and lake dwellers are equally blessed. A partial rundown...
Mummification and burial at sea are old. Here's what the innovative are doing with their remains...
...Thirty years ago, Apollo 11, the first of those historic missions, took off from Cape Kennedy carrying space veterans Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Four days later, on July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin actually set their ugly, leggy lunar module down on the plains of the Sea of Tranquillity, becoming the first two men to walk on another world. Over the next three years, Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 followed, putting down in such improbable spots as the Ocean of Storms, the Descartes highlands and the shadows of the soaring Apennines...