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...Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide did the Enterprise finally break loose from its unwanted mooring and finish its long journey home...
...nation is at risk. The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament. History is not kind to idlers...
Daniel Prins, 40, was his choice. Born in Holland, Prins came to the U.S. in 1970 and worked in marketing for a variety of companies from TWA to Procter & Gamble. Prins knew nothing about buses, but figured that he "could market bus travel just like a box of Tide or Cheer...
...thus far, but a small change in the predominantly southeasterly wind could drive the main body of the slick onto hundreds of miles of Arab coastline. Says an environmentalist in the gulf: "The slick is not going to go around looking for a home forever." In Qatar alone, the tide of oil could close down two desalination plants that now produce 37 million gal. of fresh water daily, most of the supply for the population of 250,000. Even small amounts of oil would jam the plants' delicate machinery...
Pursuing a classical music career at Harvard is "hard but helpful," Chung said. She explains that "if I were at a conservatory, I would be carried by a tide of people with the same goal," adding that "at a university, I must be strong enough to pursue music, not because of people and the competition, but because of a personal desire...