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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gather Saturday in Honolulu for a privately-sponsored commemoration of the day, 50 years ago, when Japan officially surrendered. Much has been made of the anniversaries last month of the bombings at Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but Nation editor Howard Chua-Eoan notes that, for American veterans, this is the date that matters. "The signing of the papers that ended that grisly conflict holds enormous import for those that fought it. Commemorating that event in Honolulu, where it all began, provides a sense of closure...
...surface of the earth, the Rift has yielded many important clues to early human history, because of its unique geology. Layers of sediment preserved animal specimens, while the volcanic eruptions that periodically shook the valley produced ash and lava whose radioactive elements make the fossils easy to date. Probably the most famous inhabitant of the valley was the diminutive creature known as Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), whose fossil skeleton was discovered in 1974 and who lived more than 3 million years...
Simpson has had enough of the dozens of street vendors selling O.J. watches, O.J. T-shirts and every conceivable O.J. tchotchke outside the courthouse, so he's suing them. The defendant is also seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages from the manufacturers. To date, Willwerth notes, Simpson has licensed only a miniature replica of himself...
Underwater vehicles date back at least to 1620. But it wasn't until Barton's bathysphere came along that scientists could descend to any respectable depth. The Bathysphere eventually took Barton and zoologist William Beebe to a record 3,028 ft., off Bermuda. But it wasn't at all maneuverable: it could only go straight down and straight back up again. Swiss engineer Auguste Piccard solved the mobility problem with the first true submersible, a dirigible-like vessel called a bathyscaphe, which consisted of a spherical watertight cabin suspended below a buoyant gasoline-filled pontoon. (A submersible is simply...
...iron, nickel, cobalt and other useful metals. In the 1970s, Howard Hughes used the search for nodules as a cover for building the ship Glomar Explorer, which was used to salvage a sunken Soviet sub. Now several mining companies are drawing up plans to do with more up-to-date equipment what Hughes only pretended...