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...competition. Some family groups have actually been pressing for a more anguished memorial that would incorporate twisted remnants of the towers that are currently in storage. They look to places like the U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, built atop the scarred hulk of the sunken warship. When he first conceived his master plan for the Trade Center site, the architect Daniel Libeskind intended to preserve the concrete containing walls, 70 ft. deep, that once held the underground foundations of the Twin Towers. Battered, fire-blasted but still standing, they told of both horror and strength. But to ensure their...
...author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, the seventh book in Barron's Jane Austen series, begins with two murders: that of a shipwright, whose throat is slit by an unknown assailant, and that of a ship, a 74-gun British warship intended for use against the Emperor Bonaparte's forces (it's 1808, if you're just tuning in) that was burned in the shipyard where it was being built. Jane is enlisted to investigate by her friend Lord Harold Trowbridge, who is both a highly placed government official...
...kilometers south of Trincomalee (the wreckage of the Vampire is yet to be found). Sunken ships and other detritus of war litter the sandy bottom along the coast?including remains from more recent conflicts. Little more than a year ago, Tamil Tiger suicide bombers blew up a government warship, killing 26 people and injuring...
...wrong when a hook attached to his mast snapped and his radio went dead. He says he then floated for 2,500 miles, living at first on a two-month supply of rice, beans, tomatoes and water, then on rainwater, tuna and turtles, until he was rescued by a warship. Attention, network executives: heartwarming tale of perseverance against the odds, right in your own backyard...
DIED. KATHLEEN MCGRATH, 50, retired Navy captain who was the first woman ever to command a U.S. Navy warship; of cancer; at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. The daughter of a B-52 pilot, she rose steadily through the ranks during a 22-year naval career that culminated with her assuming command of the frigate U.S.S. Jarrett in 1998. She took the vessel and its 262-member crew on a six-month mission to the Persian Gulf in 2000 to hunt for ships smuggling Iraqi oil, leaving her husband Gregory Brandon, an ex--Navy officer, at home in San Diego...