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...place. For all their gritty romantic lore, the days of battleships and cruisers slugging it out as submarines stealthily lurked below the surface have gone the way of Admiral Chester Nimitz. But many in the American submarine community continue to believe--or at least to argue--that a massive undersea force is still an essential part of American security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...merits of that progression are, of course, questionable. Depeche Mode walks a thin line between being innovative and inane. Sometimes, the synthesized noises sound untempered. Embedded in the songs are sounds of cars screeching, giant coins spinning, undersea environments, etc. The Band can do some very weird things--a listener is led to wonder whether the weirdness is unintentional, or whether Depeche Mode may have a fetish for appearing goofy. Maybe it's a big joke on the listeners. The terrible screeching that opens "I Feel You," the stereophonic mayhem in "Behind the Wheel," and the sounds of the manic...

Author: By Eliot Schrefer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Decade of Depeche: Rarely In Fashion | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...that supremacy, at least in the tiny chink of the sea that belongs to her native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba off Jordan's 16 miles of southern coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princess Basma: A Royal Guardian For Jordan's Reefs | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...captain of the first team of women to live beneath the ocean's surface; the five aquanauts spent two weeks in an underwater laboratory off the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1970. She has gone on at least 50 expeditions and spent more than 6,000 hours undersea, including a record-setting solo descent to 3,000 ft. in a submersible craft known as Deep Rover. In the 1979 dive that gave her the royal nickname, she became the mirror image, and the equal, of the moonwalkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYLVIA EARLE : Call Of The Sea | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...city-state has a Board of Governors, anattorney general, secretaries of state andtreasury, and ministers of finance, foreignaffairs, interior, education, corporations,commerce, undersea research and development,public health and safety...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HMS Grad To Run On-Line University | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

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