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Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick has now re-examined the old tale, after digging up just about every scrap ever written about it. In the Heart of the Sea (Viking; 302 pages; $24.95) is a spellbinding yarn, and, like Melville's classic, awash with human frailty...
...Hindu carvings that will surpass the 1,483-ft.-tall Petronas Towers in Malaysia to become the world's tallest skyscraper. Opponents say Sao Paulo, virtually bankrupt as it is, would have to shoulder enormous infrastructure costs, and environmentalists claim the site is dangerously near a floodplain that is awash in the rainy season...
...hard to believe the Missouri dams will be removed, so the land loss will go on. Pieces of Plaquemines Parish might remain above water a few decades longer. Ultimately, as the Gulf closes in, New Orleans--which is below sea level, abjectly dependent on levee protection--could find itself awash in the storm surge of a major hurricane...
Extraordinary wealth appears to be widely available for the taking. In the New Economy, the notions of paying your dues or learning the ropes are obsolete. The world seems to be awash in free money. And people seem especially eager to give that money to men and women in their twenties. For the ambitious on this campus, dreaming of ways to get rich quick, never before has the "rich" been richer and the "quick" been quicker...
...bounty for his betrayal of Christ is another of Parker's hanging pieces. A cascade of fishing line tenuously holds, in a five-by-six array, thirty pools of steamrolled silverware, from forks to platters to trombones. A slight rumbling from the Green Line below and the room is awash with music. A spiritual experience indeed--it's a near miracle that all those pieces manage to hang without tangling...