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...price of being caught can be high. Late last week, on an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, a specially trained Labrador retriever, flown in by helicopter from Franklin, La., discovered marijuana in a worker's luggage. The employee was fired on the spot, and shared a ride back to the mainland with the dog and its handler...
...companies operating in the Gulf have similar policies. In the course of one nine-month period, Pennzoil searched twelve platforms, 25 boats and 30 helicopters and fired 85 people caught with drugs. The firm now lets go even employees who are found in possession of drug paraphernalia like roach clips and rolling papers...
Like a grim ghost ship, the broken space capsule sat on the ocean floor, 18 miles east of the launching pad at Cape Canaveral. Peering through the clear blue water of the Gulf Stream, U.S. Navy divers could make out the remains of several crew members of the space shuttle Challenger. The astronauts, some still strapped into their seats, had come to rest in 100 ft. of water after the long plunge from the sky on the icy morning last January that marked a crash landing for the U.S. space program...
Icahn, who has made a fortune by buying and selling stakes in such companies as Dan River and Gulf+Western, hopes to use his deal-making skills to rebuild TWA. He made his first major move three weeks ago, when he persuaded Ozark Air Lines to merge with TWA for $250 million. Among other benefits, the acquisition will sharply increase the number of domestic flights that feed passengers to TWA's overseas routes. Icahn is also thinking about buying a hotel chain and an auto-rental company to combine with TWA. That would enable customers to reserve a plane seat...
...sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small groups. But no one in the area along Nebraska's Platte River can avoid encountering the whooper's brethren, the sandhills, which tarry for weeks in concentrations of 20,000 per mile...