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Since 1981 there have been nearly 20 attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon. Steve Fossett, a Chicago millionaire who attempted the feat five times, plunged into the Coral Sea after traveling 14,236 miles last August. And on Christmas Day he went down again near the coast of Hawaii, taking along his partners, Per Lindstrand of Sweden and Branson. The U.S. Coast Guard fished them out at a cost--to taxpayers--of about $130,000. Setting the elusive record was worth the trouble to Fossett. "I can't tell you how it ranks with the others, like climbing...
This is one place you really can't spend four years in Boston without visiting. The aquarium is rightfully famous for its beautiful underwater displays, including a four-story, 187,000 gallon recreation of a coral reef and hands-on tidal pools. There are also sea lion shows on the "Discovery," a floating pavilion attached to the museum. A new harbor seal exhibit with above and below water viewing opens soon. Open M-F 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Wharf. (973-5200) T-stop: Aquarium...
...both symbolic and practical reasons, thisis a sea change in the policy," Sobel said. "Ithink the issue of groups and their potentialdisruption can be addressed while still making itpossible for anyone to walk in and use thelibrary...
...environmental change and whether that status is deserved. An illustrative example is again the topic of climate change, which is caused primarily by the increase in the content of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. An important effect of global warming is the rise of global sea levels, which is a prospect that severely threatens many small island nations and peninsulas. Bangladesh is a country whose coastline would significantly regress inland with a sea level rise of only a few centimeters, thereby decimating coastal communities...
...Gulf of Mexico, a two-hour drive south of New Orleans. A deadly hurricane in 1893 leveled much of the island, but the smooth beaches and sultry subtropical climate remain unchanged. It is not hard to imagine Edna in her final swim, lured by "the voice of the sea...seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude...