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That something turned out to be the earliest intact shipwreck ever recovered, a fully laden cargo vessel that had gone to its silent, watery grave perhaps 3,400 years ago, about the time King Tutankhamun was on the throne in Egypt. The discovery, announced in Washington last week by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bounty from the Oldest Shipwreck | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

The second project was a goalpost with collapsable crossbar, which Augustynski said was dismissed because "some of the crossbar was left standing, and it was still possible to pull this down." He added that if these goalposts were to be torn down, they would bring down many more sharp, jagged...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Security Will be Strengthened At Harvard-Yale Grid Match | 11/3/1984 | See Source »

*Installing wooden goalposts for games where field-storming is expected. But when wood is torn down, it breaks into flying, jagged pieces, causing eye injuries to bystanders, Reardon said. Being struck by a wooden goalpost, Reardon said, would also probably cause as much damage as the aluminum post which left...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Administrators Debate Goalpost Policy | 10/4/1984 | See Source »

"Over there, on the un-green hills," says the Iraqi major pointing to jagged peaks, "is Iran." The late-afternoon sun is playing tricks with the scenery: Iran looks brown and desolate, Iraq green and attractive. "The Iranians have disappeared," the major explains as he peers through an enormous pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: A Way to Distract the Enemy | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

At least ten of the 1,500 small landing craft foundered. One lost 30 men out of 32 aboard. Others took shellbursts and a steady pinging of bullets against the steel sides. Still others collided with the jagged obstacles and barbed wire that the Germans had embedded along the beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Every Man Was a Hero A Military Gamble that Shaped History | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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