The fire spread to several spaces via a cableway and caused extreme heat in some of the ship spaces, but it was contained and extinguished by the crew without any serious injuries to personnel. It took several hours to completely
Kearsarge has been host to over 10,000 tourists who have had the rare privilege to come aboard the warship and see the Sailors and Marines demonstrate their skills and explain their mission.
It's a pleasure to be here at this 21st celebration of Fleet Week," said Vice Adm. Marty Chanik, commander, U.S. Navy Second Fleet, who served as the event's main speaker.
For decades, the Friday night lights have beamed down on stadiums full of Lansing Eastern and Lansing Catholic high school football teams, cheerleaders, bands and fans - but always at schools like Sexton, Everett and Holt Junior High.
The spacecraft Phoenix landed safely on Mars yesterday, making a hazardous soft landing on the planet's far north with all its scientific systems apparently intact and ready to begin an intensive new search for life beyond Earth.
Ever emptied the Recycle Bin only to suddenly realize that you just deleted something you meant to keep? Have you ever re-installed Windows only to find out days later that the documents you thought would be left, were no longer
OLIVET Due to an overwhelming response from prospective students, the Olivet College Board of Trustees announced on May 16 that the college is expanding its Community Connection Grant (CCG) to include 27 additional area high schools.
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm.
We live in an age of globalization. Cheap air travel, international markets, and technology have made us into world citizens. The benefits of a cosmopolitan life are available to more people today than they have been in any other era
As the American people look back 40 years to the tragic assassination of one of its most gifted leaders conspiracy advocates have once again attempted to prove a conspiracy was behind Robert Kennedy's murder. Internet sites and blogs are awash
As for Americans whose papers are in order, we are relatively safe in the homeland as long as we do not mingle our electrons with those of the enemy. Should we be discovered sharing a ride on the information highway
To restore their faith, we will have to leave when it is manifestly not in our apparent interest to do so-in short, now. The surge was supposed to provide enough relief to permit Iraq's government to resolve the issues at
Recently, it has been all too frequent an occurrence to have to assess the survival chances of prominent individuals with cancer. Ted Kennedy's recent diagnosis is the latest and his prognosis cannot be sugar coated. While the exact stage of
Mr. Shenkman, the author of the new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books, June 2008), is an associate professor of history at George Mason University and editor of the university's History
In every presidential election they have won, the Democrats have solidified their historic link to white workers, not dismissed them. Obama and the champions of a new party coalition appear to think that everything has suddenly changed, simply because of
