Word: ship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Curt Newport found it on the first try. "I remember saying, 'Oh my God, I can't believe it. That's it. We found it. This is it!"' Newport said afterward. The sonar on the salvage expert's ship had spotted 88 potential targets in the 24-square-mile area Newport had isolated after 14 years of analyzing NASA charts and photographs. The first object Newport checked out looked like airplane wreckage -- until he made out the words "United States" on the video monitor. Mission accomplished. But the mystery of why the hatch blew in the first place will likely...
...attention of government operatives, who proceed to hunt him down (it's kind of like The X-Files, except in this case one of the operatives is wrestler Hollywood Hogan). Not only must Gonzo flee the men in black, he also must decide whether to board the mother ship and join his family or stay on earth with his Muppet friends...
...Still another name prefigured our fellow Starbucks. Terry first opted for Pequod, after Melville's ship, but Gordon contested that no one would want to drink at the Pequod. Instead, Gordon wanted a title associated with his native Seattle and went hunting for names in Washington state mountains. He liked the sound of a turn-of-the-century coal mine by the name of Starbo, which reminded Terry's literary penchant of Starbuck. Melville would cringe at the association...
...romantic, Melville's Starbuck was a prudent husband of sober Christian morals. He was the one mariner not afraid to confess his fear of whales, a problematic phobia on a whaling expedition. At the end of the book (sorry to give away those suspenseful 300 last pages), when the ship's captain ruthlessly pursues omnipotent Moby Dick, Starbuck contemplates mutiny. But, his respect for authority outweighs Starbuck's determination to return alive to wife and kids. He puts back the knife and ultimately drowns with the rest of the crew, while chasing the whale. Not quite the mystique that Terry...
HRUAI is working with the New England Albanian Relief Organization (NEARO) to ship and distribute the supplies. Brillembourg said NEARO is the only organization HRUAI could locate in Massachusetts currently sending supplies to the war-torn region...