Word: subs
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Indeed, the bottom of the lake, a gray moonscape punctuated by boulders, rock-slides and l00-ft.-high sandstone walls, was teeming with life. Clouds of minute zooplankton drifted across the sub's windows like snowflakes. Burrowing burbot fish dug deep trenches in the silt, while sculpin fish created dimple-like holes as they nestled into the lake floor...
...reminder of the level of human catastrophe which faces us at the dawn of the 21st century. Since the AIDS epidemic emerged in the early 1980s, over 15 million Africans have died. In 2004 alone, another 3.1 million became newly infected with the disease and 2.3 million sub-Saharan Africans lost their lives to it. To put that staggering figure in context, the disease takes over 6,000 African lives daily—approximately the same number of people as comprise the undergraduate population at Harvard College...
Unfortunately, since the Comedy Studio features many new and up-and-coming comedians, the price is a few sub par comics. Happily, so many acts are featured that the lousy ones are washed away by their more sidesplitting, novel counterparts...
...summit will focus on raising awareness about the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Caribbean, and among black Americans. The events will include a benefit dinner on April 22 and a conference with presentations and panel discussions all day on April 23. Owusu-Kesse said the weekend will conclude with a semi-formal dance on April...
...detected the distinctive electronic pinging signals emitted by flight recorders but could not fix their location. Then, at 2 a.m. last Tuesday, the engineers hit the jackpot: on their video screens they saw the downed plane's voice recorder on the ocean floor, 6,700 ft. below. Maneuvering the sub closer by firing small bursts from its thrusters, they gingerly extended one of Scarab's mechanical arms so that it carefully picked up the black box. The submersible was then slowly hoisted aboard the Léon Thevenin, clutching its prize...