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...rigid that it is measured in millimeters. Work cards document every step in the process and are reviewed first by the airline and then by FAA inspectors. Maintenance errors are suspected in the most recent major U.S. crash, Alaska Airlines Flight 261, which plummeted into the Pacific Ocean in January 2000, killing all 88 aboard...
...rawly funny--they are understated, oblique, and sneak up on you. They imply both sudden disasters and long cultural histories. Thus some of the Death Ships link back to the awful sense of abandonment envisaged by Coleridge in The Ancient Mariner, "idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean," or in their case a sculpted ship on a sculpted ocean. Who else would envisage, as a symbol of progress, an object like The Last Ray of Hope, 1968--a pair of Westermann's Marine-issue boots, polished and waxed again and again to a perfect, obsidian-like blackness...
...such cases came earlier this month, when the House approved oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. There are a total of 19 million acres in the refuge, and in 1980 Congress set aside 1.5 million of them along a strip of the refuge's northern Arctic Ocean coast for possible oil exploration. Oil companies and Alaska's congressional delegation have been anxious ever since to start drilling there. The oil companies believe 5 to 16 billion barrels of oil could be recovered there, while Alaskans are eager for the revenue that exploration would generate for their state...
...fights, blocking the creation of new whale sanctuaries in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific. "There is no scientific basis for sanctuaries," said Minoru Morimoto, Japan's commissioner. His country is the only one that kills whales - ostensibly for scientific research - in the Southern Ocean sanctuary, established in 1994. While research is permitted, anti-whaling nations say there is no reason why it has to be lethal. Many campaigners consider the science little more than a cover for commercial whaling. Japan denies that, and says its studies of the impact of whale appetites on fish stocks are important. "Blaming...
...STELLER's SEA LION Weight: 272 kg to 900+ kg From: Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea Secret Weapon: Finny feet...