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...author, a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for military hardware, blipped onto the national radar screen with his 1984 novel, The Hunt for Red October, a tale of a defecting Soviet nuclear submarine and its conflicted crew. Published by the Naval Institute Press, known primarily for academic and technical journals, the book was praised by Ronald Reagan as "the perfect yarn," became the sleeper of the year and stayed on the best-seller lists for seven months. With his new novel, Clancy has climbed out of the water. This time his subject is nothing less than World...
...pursue and trap these sociable, intelligent cetaceans? The dolphins are merely a fisherman's convenience. A few feet beneath them swims the real object of the hunt: a huge school of yellowfin tuna, which for reasons that baffle scientists often congregate below pods of dolphins. More than 90% of the yellowfin caught by the U.S. tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they...
...than 40 stories in the past two years about pollution issues surrounding the state's powerful oil industry. Meanwhile Weaver has run a poignant series on the survival struggle by the state's Eskimos and launched a folk-adventure column that recently took readers on an open-boat whale hunt. Then last week he dropped a fresh bomb with a front-page scoop about MarkAir, an Anchorage-based airline. According to the News, the U.S. State Department paid Mark-Air to fly supplies to a Nicaraguan contra base in Honduras...
...others: James Henry Lane of Kansas, 1866; Frank Brandegee of Connecticut, 1924; and Lester Hunt of Wyoming...
...high-rise standards, it is dinky, a dozen stories from head to toe. And by the standards of statuary, Lady Liberty is absurdly huge, unnecessarily literal, a giant trinket as vulgar as a sign on the Las Vegas strip. It is hardly an ancient monument. Except for Richard Morris Hunt's pedestal, the thing was not even Made in America. (Perfect protectionist irony: an imported patriotic icon...