EDITOR'S NOTE

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Robert Ballard's hope that Titanic should remain

undisturbed was not realized. Last July, a French

expedition began to retrieve artifacts from the wreck

site. Its actions were roundly criticized as grave

robbing—justifiably, for the line between curiosity

and acquisitiveness seems to have been crossed.

                                                                                                        —THE EDITOR