The attacks were attributed to two sharks, which were soon brought in by a mission mounted by the environment ministry, involving a large group of conservation specialists.
Despite some early dramatic stories hinting at a disaster, and some appalling weather conditions locally, all 26 were found safe and well after a retrieval mission mounted by emergency services, including mountain rescue and the coastguard.
In recent years the society has expanded its mission, mounting exhibitions in museums, sponsoring concerts and recording interviews with Jewish musicians for an oral history.
Wilson was not shaped by European modernism; he enlisted European modernism in a mission already mounted — the mission to deprovincialize American culture.
Numerous descriptions of the Lake Chad region were written by 19th-century Europeans, and three scientific missions were mounted between 1898 and 1909.
At $160 million, Deep Space 1 was the cheapest interplanetary mission ever mounted by the United States, experts said.
Germany has 4,200 troops in Afghanistan, and domestic pressure to rethink its mission has mounted since its forces called in a NATO airstrike this month that left scores of Afghans dead.
The mission was mounted so quickly and relatively cheaply because it used the same spacecraft design and several leftover instruments from two other projects, the Mars Express craft now orbiting the red planet and the Rosetta comet orbiter launched in 2004.
The company is to have another staged reading of a new play at the Croton Library on Nov. 17, and three more in the spring, but its mission of mounting full productions of what Mr. Foster calls "different fare for savvy audiences" depends on the turnout for "Full Bloom".
Meanwhile, NASA is assessing whether an additional servicing mission should be mounted later in the decade to keep the telescope operating past 2010.
