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Wolfgang Petersen, the German director who has won worldwide audiences for manly crises under the water (Das Boot), on its roiling surface (The Perfect Storm) and in the sky (Air Force One), wants to take The Iliad out of schoolroom memories. His notion is to vacuum off the cobwebs and make it a vivid adventure that will appeal equally to adults who have a yawning familiarity with the story and to children for whom Homer is only Bart's bald, dundering...
...reward for the recovery of the work. Deep Disaster RUSSIA An aging Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, with the loss of up to 9 of its 10 crew members. The vessel was being towed to a scrapyard when pontoons supporting it broke away in a heavy storm, sending the sub down in 170 m of water. Navy officials claimed that the submarine's nuclear reactor posed no environmental threat. Great Catch THE SOUTHERN OCEAN An Uruguayan fishing vessel suspected of poaching the prized Patagonian toothfish from Australian waters was escorted back to Australia after armed fisheries officials...
Spoilsport economists may say it's not yet time to reach for the sunglasses, but Asia's economic storm is starting to clear. A brighter outlook for the remainder of 2003 propelled stock markets in South Korea and Hong Kong to 13-month highs last week; even Japan's moribund Nikkei index, which sunk to a 20-year low in late April, has since rebounded 35%. Meanwhile, retailers and real estate brokers in down-and-out Hong Kong say buyers seem to be slowly returning. "The general mood here has improved in the past two weeks," says Hong Kong Financial...
...with enough disposable income and not too much parental dominance. They ought to be loose and happy, listening to bubble-gum pop, painting their toenails outrageous colors and mooning over clueless boys. Instead they are tense and miserable, brooding, whining and flirting with self-immolation in the hormonal fire storm that rages in all of them...
...investigations. Trombly and several other witnesses testified last week that Byrne punched him in the face with closed fists, held him by the throat with one hand while striking him with the other and threw him across the room into a bench. They said that the sergeant directed a storm of obscenities and insults at Trombly during and before the alleged beating...