Word: sunkenness
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...know whether to trust a man, they say, you must look into his eyes. While Italy last week got its first good glimpse of Mafia turncoat Antonino Giuffrè, his deep dark eyes and sunken facial features were kept hidden from view. During his live video testimony, broadcast on Tuesday in a Palermo courtroom, the 57-year-old former top lieutenant of Cosa Nostra - the Sicilian Mafia - offered sometimes electrifying allegations in the Mafia-association trial of Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, a close political ally and business partner of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But throughout the four hours of questioning...
...northwestern state of Galicia, and its remaining cargo - at least 55,000 tons of thick fuel oil - could detonate in days, weeks or months into a great black tide of viscous goo, unleashing one of the worst marine disasters ever. But if King Neptune is kind, the sunken tanker may just sleep, its cargo solidified, having done all the dirty work it will ever do. Its work so far has been dastardly. Some 400 km of ecologically sensitive Galician shoreline, home to the region's critical fishing industry and a variety of exotic seabirds, are already coated in the gunge...
...Sixty years later, the Hermes is just one of the wrecks that forms a divers' paradise around Batticaloa, 132 kilometers south of Trincomalee (the wreckage of the Vampire is yet to be found). Sunken ships and other detritus of war litter the sandy bottom along the coast?including remains from more recent conflicts. Little more than a year ago, Tamil Tiger suicide bombers blew up a government warship, killing 26 people and injuring...
...Sprawling across 20 hectares in the hills above Magelang, the 75-year-old coffee plantation has received a marvelous sprucing up by Gabriella Teggia, one of the founders of the Amandari resort in Bali. Teggia added sunken tubs, facial rubs and comfy antiques?all the frills expected of a luxurious retreat. Yet she avoided altering the rustic allure of life on the former Van ders Wan farm. The original 1828 farmhouse is now a library and a lounge. Guests enter the resort through an 1878 train station, moved from Mayong junction 250 kilometers away...
...This time, the theorists say they weren't even looking for the Lost Continent. They were bounty hunting for sunken galleons and such (they say they've found one of those, too, and it's going to make them rich). Then when they peered at this sonar photography being sent up from the extreme deep - lo, there were massive stones in geometric patterns and . . . yes!. . .the outline of a city and . . . with an entire community surrounding, all on a vast undersea plain off the west coast of Cuba. I've read a few accounts of the find, now, and have...