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...cell anemia. These blood disorders result from defects in the genes that control production of hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen in the blood. In essence, thalassemia victims cannot form healthy red blood cells on their own and require periodic transfusions; sickle cell patients are subjected to painful blood vessel blockages...
...been accompanied by an equally disturbing increase in conventional strength and the ability to project power around the world. It has added ground forces and modernized its armored units in Eastern Europe. The Soviet navy has evolved from little more than a coastal patrol force to a bluewater, 300-vessel fleet that could threaten the industrialized democracies' sea lines of communication...
...ivory totem, twice as large as Arnold Schwarzenegger and with three times the dark charm. Grande Othelo, who starred 40 years ago in Orson Welles' unfinished film It's All True, is the wrinkled old retainer of one of Fitz's broken dreams. And steering the vessel through precarious waters is Klaus Kinski, once the psychotic stalker of Herzog's Aguirre, Woyzeck and Nosferatu, now a Kodachrome picture of the imperialist as jolly fantast. It is one of the many odd pleasures of Fitzcarraldo to watch Kinski's 80 or so teeth, which are usually...
More than a century later, the image of the wreck haunted the imagination of Alexander McKee, a historian who skindived throughout the Solent in order to find the vessel. In 1966 he discovered a 19th century naval chart that marked the site of the sinking. Says McKee: "I was electrified." Using undersea scanning technology developed by Electrical Engineer Harold Edgerton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McKee found the remains of the Mary Rose buried in a watery depression. For four years the historian and a band of amateur divers dug away, sometimes with their bare hands, until they discovered...
...more excavation proceeded around the burial site, however, the more salvagers of the Mary Rose were caught up in a race against time. What remained of the hull of the vessel after cen turies of erosion was a near perfect cross section, but the modern digging exposed Mary Rose's surviving timbers to the destructive scouring of tides and the appetites of marine organisms. In August 1980 the decision was made by the growing legions of Mary Rose salvagers to plan last week's dramatic lift. The salvage attempt had the blessing of Prince Charles...