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Indeed, the bottom of the lake, a gray moonscape punctuated by boulders, rock-slides and l00-ft.-high sandstone walls, was teeming with life. Clouds of minute zooplankton drifted across the sub's windows like snowflakes. Burrowing burbot fish dug deep trenches in the silt, while sculpin fish created dimple-like holes as they nestled into the lake floor...
...Great Lakes (Superior is the cleanest), toxic chemicals like PCB remain a problem. Researchers plan to devote 16 dives to studying the nepheloid, a cloudy, particle-laden 6-in. layer of water just above the lake floor that seems to trap, and then rerelease, pollutants. "We had thought that bottom sediments were sort of permanent sinks for contaminants attached to particles," explains Steven Eisenreich, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Minnesota. "Now we're finding out that under certain conditions these particles get recycled...
...hand around to high-tech stores in Chicago." General Electric is sluicing black into the mainstream too. "We've greatly increased black items in the last year," says Walter Bennett, until recently an appliance marketer for GE. "This year we've made black available down into our very bottom lines...
Besides, he expects to go on managing. "I want to build character and confidence in young players, stick with them in some jams and show them what's really at the bottom of this game." Second in their division and unsatisfied, the Reds have been baseball's most surprising contenders. In contrast to many accomplished players-turned-managers, Rose is described by his troops as almost always patient and almost never distant. "You know how managers always say, 'I don't care if they like me as long as they respect me?' Well, that ain't my philosophy." He sees...
...this, the kid's got a chance." The room thickened with old golfers. Billy Casper ambled by. "Billy, Billy, the kid's going to win it." When he did, they shouted for joy, stood there plainly moved for a moment. All of these are only games, but on the bottom line, money is not what moves us. --By Tom Callahan