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Andrew and Betsy Wyeth are the picture of relaxed domesticity as they welcome a visitor to the lighthouse they call home on Southern Island, a 22-acre retreat off the coast of Maine. Tanned and fit, with the kind of face the Romans used to impress on coins, Wyeth, 69, wears a beige sailor's sweater and beige twill pants; his silver-blond hair is closely cropped, like any good sea captain's. Wyeth has been out painting this morning, as he has done every morning for 50 years. "I'm like a prostitute," he says, laughing. "I'm never...
...from ceilings and dripping down walls; the grand staircase, minus the stairs; the ship's wheel, the wood eaten away but the brass fittings gleaming like new. These were some of the eerie images that emerged last week as a camera- equipped robot wandered through the Titanic, the first visitor to enter the "unsinkable" ship since an iceberg sent her and more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who located the wreck last September...
...past when the out-of-town driver, lost on Boston's streets, was a good joke," said the Boston Globe in a recent series on traffic. "That confused visitor, halted in the middle of an intersection, is likely to be the - direct cause of a traffic jam that extends several blocks . . . Get some signs up -- and make sure they are readable and make sense...
...ease the evangelists' economic burdens, a group called Samaritan's Purse, operated by Graham's son Franklin, allotted two shirts, a tie, a pair of socks and tennis shoes for each male attendee (only 500 women participated). "I've been praying for some shoes," said one delighted visitor. Seven tons of donated clothing were also provided to be taken home to wives and children...
...time as well as space. A Greek navigator who landed on the British Isles around 310 B.C. formed a favorable impression of the residents: "They are simple in their habits, and far removed from the cunning and knavishness of modern man." By the early 18th century, a Swiss visitor to England noted a decline in hospitality: "When the people see a well-dressed person in the streets, especially if he is wearing a braided coat, a plume in his hat, or his hair tied in a bow, he will, without doubt, be called 'French dog' 20 times perhaps before...