There were dozens of girls in there - girls on the deck in bathing suits, most of them Speedos because they were racing.

Representative Gene Taylor, a Democrat from Mississippi and chairman of a House seapower subcommittee, said questions had emerged about whether a new system for catapulting planes off the next generation of carriers would work.

To go outside the unusual, to report the uncovered or undercovered, reporters have to find new listening posts.

We had a terrible year so we agreed to turn back the clock and go on as if it hadn't happened.