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...Fall or William Boot in Scoop. A dark half-century later, Boyd's Henderson Dores would not be believable as a pure man; he must be inept and pusillanimous. When last seen, he has lost his job and his women, and his life hangs on his ability to outrun a real attacker. So much, says Boyd, for the insufficiently corrupt...
Just a few years ago, the nation's long-haul truck drivers were celebrated as the last cowboys. Sitting high and lonesome in 18-wheelers, they put the pedal to the metal, trying to outrun "Smokey" and middle-of-the-road conformity. The flip side of the image: stressful schedules and strained marriages. But now split-level suburbia is the new deal on wheels. An up-and-coming crowd of diesel outriders are bringing their homes and their wives along in fully outfitted, self-contained living quarters set behind the driver's cab. If they need a handle, call this...
WPPSS's troubles are the result of more than a decade of misjudgments. In the early 1970s, when it appeared that the demand for electricity would outrun supply, WPPSS started construction on three nuclear plants and later added two more. The agency, though, was unable to cope with such enormous projects, and deadlines began slipping and expenses ballooning. By 1982 the total cost of the development had leaped to $23.8 billion, more than five times the original estimate. The first plant is not scheduled for completion until 1984, seven years later than expected. Making the situation even worse, energy...
Nobody was surprised. Not even Beardsley. "He has superior leg speed, so he was able to outrun me," said the second place finisher. "There's no doubt, he's one of the best in the world...
...Mirrors at Versailles. But when the French liner burned and capsized at its Manhattan dock in 1942, it was not so much its beauty that was mourned as the loss of one of the fastest passenger ships ever built, then being refitted as an Allied troop transport that could outrun any U-boat. In Normandie Triangle (Arbor House; 475 pages; $13.95), Novelist Justin Scott evokes the grace and power of the great ship even as he describes its destruction and welds an ambitious Nazi stratagem to the smoldering hulk...