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...Hula, fat and fiftyish, owns a small marine salvage firm in Miami. Out of nowhere, he gets a phone call from his younger half brother, Michael Cruz. They have heretofore shared only a mother and mutual indifference (Hula's father was Polish, Cruz's a Portuguese seaman). Now Cruz, a New York mobster, needs Hula's help, offers him half a million dollars and threatens to destroy his business if he refuses. Hula does not. Cruz has somehow got hold of a ton of cocaine in Colombia and transported it to the Bahamas. A boat carrying this...
...husband, whose previous ventures had included a Hovercraft expedition on the White Nile. Fiennes met Burton, a former army corporal, at a party, and he agreed to go along on a training mission to the Arctic in 1977. An advertisement for a deck hand turned up Anthony Bowring, a seaman, who tracked down a 27-year-old polar ship. Bowring then persuaded his father's insurance firm, C.T. Bowring, and a New York insurance company to buy the ship and help sponsor the expedition. It was renamed for the founder of the firm. Within a year, Bowring had also...
...great-grandfather founded the society in 1888; his grandfather Inventor Alexander Graham Bell was its second president; his father edited the society's magazine, the National Geographic, for 55 years. "M.B.G.," as he was known, was president and editor from 1957 to 1967. A world traveler and master seaman, he increased funds for research, exploration, TV and films...
...world." Moritz, a native of Wales who read history at Christ Church, Oxford, and earned an M.B. A. at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, joined TIME as a correspondent in 1979. Assigned to the Detroit bureau, he reported on the auto industry, and, with Barrett Seaman, then Detroit bureau chief and now Washington news editor, he is co-author of Going for Broke: the Chrysler Story, published last fall by Doubleday. Now, Moritz finds, Detroit's misery has lessons for Silicon Valley: "Detroit is a terrifying example of what happens when innovation dwindles. The new risk...
...crew is wary of modern navigational instruments, preferring to depend on triangles, protractors and geometry lessons of old. The hydraulic steering mechanism, for example, allows Cavalier to be guided by automatic pilot, but no one trusts it for work hi shallow waters. Says Seaman Aaron Hairston, 33: "If you had an accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats...