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...liner has at last been found sitting nearly upright on the frigid Atlantic floor, 500 miles south of Newfoundland and more than 13,000 ft. below sea level. At that depth, the great ship and its trove of Edwardian-era relics have been shielded from the destructive effects of sunlight, heat, algae and parasites. "If you had your wildest dream of how you were going to find that ship, that is exactly how we found it," said an ebullient Robert Ballard, expedition leader and a marine geologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "It is a museum piece...
...survive through chilly and dark Arctic winters lasting from November to February. That theory tends to undermine the currently popular asteroid version of the apocalypse. According to that model, all dinosaurs perished when an asteroid or comet collided with the earth and tossed obscuring dust into the air, blocking sunlight and lowering ground temperatures. Clemens counters that dinosaurs living up north would hardly have noticed the difference, let alone be wiped out. Says he: "It doesn't matter if your long winter night is the result of an asteroid cloud or just a seasonal period of darkness...
...photo placed beneath them, two boys cut with large knives pieces of sugar cane before walls of crumbling brick. They are cutting the cane for a snack as is common in Chile--and in the dirty sunlight, mudged and rumpled, they share a friendship as happily as the well-dressed schoolgirls above them...
...carpeted steps of the TWA jet at Andrews Air Force Base last Tuesday were among the 39 hostages whose personal ordeal at the hands of radical Lebanese Shi'ites had been an agonizing 17-day national nightmare. Now they were home. As they walked into the bright sunlight, they seemed to give fresh affirmation to the familiar Fourth of July lyrics about the land of the free and the home of the brave...
Some 40 miles east of Tripoli, a complex of white stone buildings sparkles in the sunlight. Beyond the main entrance a courtyard opens onto a verdant Mediterranean garden. One of the surrounding walls is decorated with a brightly colored, stylized representation of Mendeleev's periodic table, the catalog of the elements. The attractive complex, however, is neither a jet- setter's hideaway nor a university campus. An inscription within the periodic table proclaims, "The Revolution Forever!" and outside the gate soldiers mount guard. Welcome to Libya's Tajura Nuclear Research Center...