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Besides the newsworthy revelation of Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov's dying message to his wife recovered last week from the husk of the sunken submarine Kursk--that 23 of the 118 crewmen had survived in an isolated chamber for a while, in contradiction to claims by Russian officials that all had perished within minutes of the accident--there was the matter of writing the message in the first place...
...Putin had to spend an awful lot of money and ask the divers to risk their lives to pull bodies, and less than that, from the sunken sub. The last thing he wanted was a note with a voice literally from the dead telling Russians that the government had misled them from the beginning. The cover-up story from the Kremlin and the Northern Fleet was that the crew had died instantly, but this note shows that we still don't know how long the last crew member survived after the Kursk went down. It's obviously significant that...
...muskie remains passive-aggressive, indifferent. For days he has been sliding along in his surly way, down there among the sunken, rotted logs of Elephant Lake, inhaling a perch now and then, ignoring our hors d'oeuvres tray of glittering Mepps spinners and Bush Hogs and Muskie Bug lures as gaudy as totem poles. Next, I'm going to try dynamite...
...threatened, fragile living creature that needed his help. Crawling on the weedy bottom in his search for shells, attached by a hose to an air tank on the surface, he couldn't see much--the water was too turbid--but he could feel things. Things he didn't like. Sunken tires. Barrels of chemicals. Microwave ovens and deflated basketballs...
...Lions lost three of its top scorers, forcing Head Coach Jay Butler to recruit some freshmen over 6'. But the new crew can't save a sunken ship...