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Cast up in America after the war, Brill founded his school on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. The institution boasted a dual curriculum: "the Priceless Legacy of Scripture and Commentaries," and social studies and French. As Brill puts it, "The waters of Shiloh springing from the head of Western Civilization." But the experiment flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah...
There have always been adventurers, footloose and sometimes screwloose, and their careless "Why not?" has always stirred alarming and delicious fears in settled souls whose timid question is "Why?" But Dr. Livingstone has been found (alive on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, in 1871, by Anglo-American Journalist Henry Morton Stanley), the Atlantic has been flown in a single-engine aircraft (by Lindbergh, in 1927), the polar regions have been explored (by an assortment of frauds and heroes), the world has been circumnavigated singlehanded (first by Joshua Slocum from 1895 to 1898), and all of the 14 mountains higher than...
...than watching the bubbles in their glasses of Perrier. Of course, they are wrong, as this summer's battling has already shown. For the September finale, the action will heat up even more, both on the 24.3-mile-long triangular course and along Newport's palazzo-lined shore, where the late-night partying has included the likes of Britain's Prince Andrew and the Aga Khan, patron of the Italian effort...
...begun to spill into the sea. For most of the day, the tanker burned, sending thick coils of black smoke rolling hundreds of feet into the air and bathing the area in an eerie orangish glow. Strong westerly winds blew a 75-mile-long cloud of choking smog toward shore, depositing thick black goo on houses and cars and coating newly shorn sheep with an oily film. Up to 25 miles inland, farmers reported an "oily rain" falling on their crops...
...point measured 1,200 sq. mi. For at least three days, it threatened marine species along South Africa's coast, including the rock lobster and half the world's population of jackass penguins. But inexplicably, the seasonal westerly wind that was blowing the slick toward shore shifted back to a southeaster, pushing the sticky mass, including a particularly threatening "mousse" of heavy oil, back out to sea. The favorable weather, declared Bill Bricknell, South Africa's chief oil-pollution-control officer, "has been nothing short of miraculous." -By Kenneth W. Banta...