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...military offers the real thing. Richard Henry Dana Jr., Class of 1837, author of Two Years Before the Mast, took a deferment and had the time of his life. To cure his failing eyesight and to test his mettle, he took a leave of absence in 1834 and shipped as a common sailor aboard a ship bound for California, via the South Seas and Cape Horn. His account of the experience is well worth the read...
...pulling out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Magna Carta of international efforts to stem the spread of atomic weapons. The message: unless the U.S. resumes the flow of oil and food aid, the North is prepared not only to build nuclear bombs but also possibly to ship them to other rogue states as well...
...submerged wreck of the car transporter Tricolor in the English Channel. A spokesman for the British maritime union NUMAST said the accident "beggared belief." How could the tanker have failed to register the five luminous buoys - one equipped with a radar beacon - surrounding the wreck, the French naval ship guarding it, and French, British and Belgian coastguard transmissions every 30 minutes to all traffic in the vicinity? And how could the captain of the Vicky have missed the wave upon wave of media attention that has broken over the Tricolor in the past month? First...
...NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space program hasn't had a leading role since James Bond went into orbit in Moonraker. But in June a small, unmanned pod named Beagle 2 (after Charles Darwin's famous ship) has a chance to change all that. Masterminded by Professor Colin Pillinger, an eccentric and exuberant planetary scientist at Britain's remote learning Open University, the Beagle is on track to beat the mighty NASA program, which is set to send its next Mars probe at about the same time...
...turn up, as the case may be. And Iraq certainly has good reason to share President Bush's doubts that war will be avoided. The U.S. this week initiated deployments that will almost double its troop strength in the region over the next month, even dispatching the hospital ship Comfort to the Gulf. President Bush is unlikely to countenance bringing home those troops as long as Saddam remains in power in Baghdad, swearing that he has no weapons of mass destruction. Saddam shows no sign of changing his tune, nor have the UN inspectors thus far turned up any evidence...