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...DIED. Carl Brashear, 75, first black master deep-sea diver for the U.S. Navy, whose triumph over Kentucky poverty, racism and leg amputation inspired the 2000 movie Men of Honor, starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brashear, a sharecropper's son who finished only the 7th grade, joined the Navy in 1950 and, after four years of pleas, was admitted to diving school?unofficially, it was for whites only?where classmates taunted him with racial slurs and death threats. In 1966, while Brashear was serving on the U.S.S. Hoist, a loose steel pipe careered across the deck and crushed...
Named after McCain's father-in-law, James Hensley, Jimmy is the lively, happy-go-lucky member of the clan, friends say. During the 2000 campaign, a Boston Globe reporter spotted Jimmy, then 11, chasing his older brother Jack around the house, calling him a "pork-barrel spender"--a deep cut in the McCain home. During that year, when McCain was on the road in New Hampshire, the candidate proudly read aloud from a school report on General George S. Patton Jr. by Jimmy that he had faxed to his father: "The Tanks Will Roll...
...others are debated on the third floor of my dormitory, Reznik 19, into the early morning hours. Israelis and Americans, Jews and Arabs, sit in a square of wooden benches on stone—an area affectionately known as the “Jacuzzi” because of the deep, open space in the center where we stick our legs–and discuss the latest developments...
...Hulk.” But science isn’t performed by crusty, withdrawn septuagenarians wearing pocket protectors. Nor is it done by mad scientist types muttering arcane formulae under their breath. But why does much of society have that impression? Perhaps because buried deep in the collective Western psyche, there is an ingrained nervousness, an anxiety toward science. We stand in awe of science, its discoveries, its modern-day miracles that we use every day, that we couldn’t imagine living without. How many of us truly know the physics behind the computers we type at daily...
...brilliant “Match Point.” Johansson plays Sondra Pransky, a gawky American journalism student as out of place in London as Allen’s on-screen alter ego, the cynical magician Sid Waterman. Not unlike Allen himself, Sid is searching for easy-to-please deep-pocketed clientele (which he finds in the stilted British upper class), and befriends Sondra along...