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...Returnees: Brian Walsh '96, Darin Shearer...
...Trieste, which took U.S. Navy Lieut. Don Walsh and Piccard's son Jacques into the Challenger Deep, was only the third bathyscaphe ever built, and unlike modern submersibles--which bristle with advanced underwater cameras, grabbers, collection baskets and manipulator arms--it carried nothing but its passengers. Its mission was to test whether humans could reach the abyss, the first step toward developing a fleet of manned submersibles. "At the time, people were still flying across the Atlantic in prop planes," recalls Walsh, now a consultant on underwater technology. "Criticizing the Trieste mission for not carrying cameras and other instruments...
...once the leader in deep-sea research, the future looks bleak. The U.S. government is giving less and less money to civilian scientists, while the military considers mines in shallow waters a much greater threat than Russian submarines. Laments Trieste veteran Walsh: "If I had seen a Russian footprint instead of a fish on the bottom, the program might have gotten more support...
...disclosures appear in Divided Lives (Simon & Schuster; $23), by a close friend of Worby's, Washington Post reporter Elsa Walsh, who set out to penetrate the ambivalences of three accomplished women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned...
...role was hobbling her career in music, she pined for the cultural environment of Manhattan, where she maintains an apartment. She sought a conducting job in Little Rock, Arkansas, but lost out when some board members attributed her success with the Wheeling Symphony to her marriage to the Governor. Walsh recounts how Worby "insisted to me for nearly a year that she felt loved and embraced as the first lady of West Virginia before breaking down and admitting that she actually cried half the time during that period, almost bereft, feeling deeply alone and friendless ... Even after she acknowledged...