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...expected that the trade deficit would vanish the moment the dollar began its descent. To begin with, the greenback fell only modestly at first, down about 9% between February and July of last year. During the next eight months, however, it fell a more dramatic 19%. Indeed, it is still falling. Last week the dollar bought only 153.6 yen at one point, the greenback's lowest level since the late 1940s. The dollar has fallen some 39% against the yen since early...
...rapport with Israelis began in 1982 when he helped one couple with an adoption. Others later learned of him by word of mouth. According to police, Cesario ran a highly sophisticated operation out of a town near the port of Itajai. The region has a large population of German descent, which accounts for the abundance of light-skinned infants. Police claim that about 60 people worked for him, including doctors, nurses, baby- sitters, court officials, notaries and drivers. In addition, women he hired allegedly masqueraded as social workers to persuade poor women to give up their babies. Their reward...
Ballard, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, joined Navigator Martin Bowen and Pilot Ralph Hollis in the research submersible Alvin as it began a 2 1/2-hour descent from the mother ship Atlantis II to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic. It was the first of twelve dives planned for the current mission, designed to survey the Titanic while testing new imaging equipment. As they neared the sea floor, Ballard said, "we came in on a wall of black steel. It seemed endless in all directions." Alvin skirted the Titanic's knife-edge bow, where the great liner's name...
...Alvin's cramped cabin. There was nothing left of the staircase itself; like much of the Titanic's celebrated woodwork, it had long since been devoured by wood-boring organisms. On every deck, though, exquisite glass and crystal chandeliers had been miraculously spared in the ship's violent descent. No human remains were seen. Said Ballard: "You have to remember that anything that's organic was eaten...
They first brought back three bodies found at about 8,300 ft., encased in ice, too cold to be revived. Rescuers speculated that the three had left those in the cave and met death in their descent. The snow cave? Searchers probed the ice crust where Summers thought it was but found no sign of the eight climbers still missing...