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Lainie Kazan and Iggy Pop will serenade you with Auld Lang Syne as you and yours suck the last dregs from your jeroboam of Roederer Cristal and giant tube worms and deep-sea shrimp (tres joli!) caper about the volcanic sulfide chimneys outside your stateroom's bay windows...
...Deep-sea vents are found near the Galapagos Islands. The hot, sulfurous water around the vents supports new species of bacteria and sea life...
...anyone who has ever suffered through a brutal summer can tell you, if it weren't for Carrier's having made human beings more comfortable, the rates of drunkenness, divorce, brutality and murder would be Lord knows how much higher. Productivity rates would plunge 40% over the world; the deep-sea fishing industry would be deep-sixed; Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel would deteriorate; rare books and manuscripts would fall apart; deep mining for gold, silver and other metals would be impossible; the world's largest telescope wouldn't work; many of our children wouldn't be able...
...another advantage to an FSC. As mandated by Congress, directors or their agents must attend one meeting a year in the vicinity of their FSC--a perfect excuse for a vacation in the Caribbean. Indeed, an FSC brochure put out by the Virgin Islands government extols the deep-sea fishing, the snorkeling, the reefs, the beaches, the 80[degree] weather. Its cover reads: U.S. EXPORTERS: TAKE A TAX BREAK IN PARADISE. Catherine Sittig, the FSC manager, said that when she asked one executive why he had located his FSC in Bermuda, he replied, "Because I play golf...
...Wheeler decided to use the story of the great auk to dramatize what was happening. A former U.S. Navy deep-sea diver and a veteran kayaker, he set out on a solo 1,500-mile kayak trip from Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay, Mass., following the seasonal migration route of the great auk--as much a feat for a man with a paddle as for a bird that could not fly. He hoped the attention the perilous journey would receive would send a clear message: "What we did to the auk, we are now doing to other species...