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...wide and just over 4 ft. high, crewmen had to sit hunched single file, each operating a crank attached to the propeller. Top speed was 4 knots. The captain navigated by peering out fist-size portholes in the forward conning tower. The Hunley had air for 2 1/2 hours, though it rarely stayed down for more than 25 minutes. Says project historian Mark Ragan: "They would surface when their candle went...
...sugary swath of beach just south of Los Angeles: a trophy. "My dad never [displayed] any trophies," says O'Neal. "Neither do I. I don't want to look like I'm satisfied." It's all about the team for him now. It's all about winning. Someday soon, though, if the Big Aristotle successfully completes his playoff drive, he just may want to clear away a little room in a display case for a memento to remember this season by: a championship ring...
None of our other experts has predicted the future quite the way Caleb Carr does in his novel Killing Time, which we commissioned for the series and which will be published in full later this year by Random House. Though the adventures of Dr. Gideon Wolfe will be expanded in the book, readers have got enough of a taste to know Carr is not quite the optimist Kaku is. "I don't mean to say these things will happen, since things can go any one of 10 ways in the future," says Carr. "But I do worry if all these...
...occasions, there could be nothing more deeply satisfying for him than a formal family outing--say, on Father's Day--to a good, though never ostentatious, New York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...
After that we grew quite close, drawn together by a common mode of conversation, the same general appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...