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Carrying a pickax and shovel, Boston University geologist David Marchant trudges up a snow-dusted side canyon to Beacon Valley. The ground beneath his feet is as intricately patterned as a quilt, and under its rubble-strewn surface lurks a glacier of venerable age. Marchant believes this glacier has been frozen in place for millions of years--and if he's right, the ice in the glacier holds invaluable clues to an earlier epoch of global warming, one that offers a provocative parallel to the warming expected later in this century...
...which she confessed in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 1983. Back then she was a drug-addicted prostitute who, during a weekend orgy with her boyfriend, had consumed an astonishing quantity of heroin, Valium, speed, percodan, mandrax, marijuana, dilaudid, methadone, tequila and rum. The two then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry Lynn Dean, 27, her ex-lover, and Deborah Thornton, 32, his companion of the moment, while they slept. Tucker, who left the pickax embedded in Thornton's chest, boasted at her trial that she had experienced an orgasm with each swing...
...variety of drugs, she repeatedly assaulted [two] sleeping victims [Jeffrey Lynn Dean and Deborah Thornton] with the murder weapon, left it embedded in Ms. Thornton's chest and boasted, just after the killings, that she had experienced a surge of sexual pleasure every time she swung the three-foot pickax...
...string of important titles; he is a photographer living for the moment with few possessions. He -- representing the people -- yearns for her, despite having found a young lover. She -- the government -- is enticed by a young love but rejects him. In the end, he is alone, using a pickax to batter at the wall. On the other side, she pulls back her possessions, trying to protect her way of life. "Won't you help me?" he yells...
Word of the find spread, and over the weekend about two dozen curiosity seekers trudged to the site. Some collected fragments of garments and tools as souvenirs, and one used a pickax to free the body from the melting ice. Overnight, however, the temperature dropped. By the time Innsbruck forensics expert Dr. Rainer Henn arrived to investigate the death, on Monday, Sept. 23, the body was again locked in ice. Having neglected to bring tools, Henn and his team resorted to hacking it out with a borrowed ice pickax and ski pole, largely destroying the archaeological value of the site...