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...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 is like chastising the Wright brothers for not carrying passengers...
...chemicals or radioactive by-products of nuclear power. In fact, the structures are environmentally safe cooling towers, not nuclear reactors. They cool water and produce a relatively harmless plume at the exhaust when the ambient air is colder and denser than the mist released by the evaporative process. RON WRIGHT, Project Manager Ceramic Cooling Tower Co. Fort Worth, Texas...
...fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens, fresh out of Girls' Latin School in Boston, West tied for second with Hurston in a short-story contest. After that, Hurston and the older black writers took her into their world as prodigy and mascot...
...this network is so sophisticated that the Bosnian Serbs probably knew which American pilots were flying when they shot down O'Grady on June 2. The Bosnian Serb antiaircraft batteries, whose communications U.S. intelligence has been monitoring, may have intentionally targeted O'Grady and his wingman, Captain Bob Wright, because the two had taken part in NATO air attacks on Bosnian Serb military targets. "They knew who Basher 51 and Basher 52 were," says a Pentagon official, referring to the call signs for O'Grady and Wright. "We think they specifically wanted to take these planes...
Andrew L. Wright '96 is president of The Crimson...