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...supporters see it, the trans-Alaskan pipeline would be a veritable lifeline, bringing the vast oil riches (10 billion barrels) of the North Slope to an energy-starved U.S. To its foes, the 789-mile pipe is a monster that could leak and pollute the Arctic wilderness...
...most Americans, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, U.S.N., is an absolute legend that goes like this: on April 6, 1909, after 23 years, eight attempts and Arctic hardships that included the loss of his toes, Peary became the first man to stand at the North Pole. It is a nearly perfect schoolboy legend of endurance and courage rewarded with honor and wealth. There is even a touch of Melville in Peary's faithful black polar companion, Matthew Henson, who wound up with a $900-a-year job as a messenger at the U.S. Customs House...
Once below the Arctic Circle, however, Peary and his friends could pull most strings. It took them two years to turn the tide of public opinion against Cook and in their favor. Cook fought back, but he was his own worst enemy. He had seriously damaged his credibility in 1906 with a photograph purporting to show him atop Mount McKinley-an assertion that has never been satisfactorily proved. His last great misadventure was as an oil-stock promoter in Texas, where a mail-fraud scandal got him five years in Leavenworth...
...last leg of his trek, he ordered his only thoroughly trained navigator to stay behind. Peary's recorded speeds of the final march far exceed the rate he had managed previously. Others have noted that the logs Peary presented as evidence were surprisingly clean considering that Arctic explorers seldom washed before or after eating their greasy pemmican...
...Arthur Machen. He even equipped the ancient demons with names - mindless Azagoth, Soggoth, Ib, Nyarlathotep and, above all, the great dread Cthulu who, in his sole appear ance, seems to be a "gelatinous green immensity" that slobbers. To recall these alien creatures from their hideous hiding places (the arctic wastes, unfathomable submarine chasms, New Eng land), the intrepid have but to practice rituals recorded in dusty, blasphemous old tomes like the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred and Von Junzt's Unaussprechlichen Kulten...