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...somehow began to. After zigzagging slowly down the top half of the slope, I picked up speed as my group slid closer and closer to the bottom of the hill. Again and again I jammed my poles in the snow and pushed off with every erg of energy my sunken pectorals and triceps could produce. My nose, exposed, throbbed, but I didn't care because I was in motion...
...Lynch (Hyperion; $60). When the "unsinkable" ocean liner went down on its maiden voyage in 1912, its story had scarcely begun. The entire epic is here, from the fatal encounter with an iceberg to the discovery of the sunken wreck in 1989. Ken Marschall's paintings imagine the past in careful, chilling detail...
...Fenimore Cooper is one of those 19th century writers you find in complete and undisturbed sets in the locked bookcases of old inns. Boys read him, American-studies majors are forced to read him, and a movie of The Last of the Mohicans has been dredged up from the sunken Atlantis of his reputation. But his adult audience is long gone...
...OFFICIALS WHO HAVE LONG SUSpected that the Soviet Union had a spy in the agency during the cold war. Speaking to an American delegation in Moscow recently, a Russian intelligence officer revealed intimate knowledge of a 1974 mission in which the U.S. salvage ship GLOMAR EXPLORER raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine in the central Pacific. American experts said such knowledge could only have come from a classified film of the supersecret operation. The still unanswered question: How did Moscow get the film...
Drugs are still being sold in Harvard Square's Pit, the sunken area between Out-of-Town News and the Square's T stop. But Harvard students won't be found dealing or buying there...