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...once the leader in deep-sea research, the future looks bleak. The U.S. government is giving less and less money to civilian scientists, while the military considers mines in shallow waters a much greater threat than Russian submarines. Laments Trieste veteran Walsh: "If I had seen a Russian footprint instead of a fish on the bottom, the program might have gotten more support...
Less boppy students will describe orientationweek as an "ordeal," or at least call it "weird."They find the placement tests too challenging,idiotic and numerous, and the ice-breaker eventstoo shallow. Thehi-what's-your-name-where-are-you-from-what's-your-dorm-well-nice-to-meet-you mantra growsold very quickly, and the days become a blur ofcookouts, sweaty parties and fierce scamming...
...still somewhat underrated Nicolas de Sta?l, was either self-consciously pious (religious stained glass was a favored metaphor) or mock convulsive. A hideous array of bravura squiggles by Georges Mathieu, whom French critics, for a while, regarded as Europe's answer to Pollock, reminds you how shallow this rhetoric could...
...premature. During the incoming flight the helicopters had traveled at about 120 m.p.h.; they roared back to the Kearsarge at 175 m.p.h., skimming the treetops in hopes of avoiding Serbian gunners and missileers below. The 87-mile flight was smooth for its first third, when the helicopters entered a shallow valley in the shape of a rice bowl. But suddenly three small, shoulder-fired SA-7 missiles ripped past, followed by "small gunfire hitting the bird," as Corporal Michael Pevear, the other Marine sitting beside O'Grady...
Throughout the year, Harvard found itself with smaller teams than its opponents. So, although the squad's top performers were as good if not better than the Crimson's top adversaries, the other teams' bottom seeds continuously racked up points on Harvard's shallow team, especially in meets involving three or more teams...