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...SOON AS THEY SAW THE PLUME OF gas, the Mexican truck drivers leaped out of their cabs and ran for the American side of the border. Acrylic acid, a toxic chemical, had leaked from a tanker waiting in line for U.S. Customs inspection, and the liquid was vaporizing as it gathered in a noxious pool. It was "chewing holes in the pavement," says Lee Thompson, who saw it all happen in early November at the border station outside Laredo, Texas. His hazardous-materials response team, fortuitously on the scene for a training exercise, rushed to prevent the highly flammable acid...
Wattenberg, 62, a columnist and think tanker for the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, makes much of his Democratic credentials: if he refers to his years as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson once, he does so a dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures...
...week's targeting of the California Forestry Association, which represents logging companies. And in the Times letter, the Unabomber declares that last December's murder of Thomas Mosser, a former executive with the Burson-Marsteller public-relations firm, was in protest against the company's representing Exxon, whose oil tanker fouled Alaska's Prince William Sound in the great oil spill...
Sophie Amundsen, the eponymous heroine of this peculiar book, is an ordinary 14-year-old schoolgirl who lives with her mother in an ordinary Norwegian suburb. (Her dad captains an oil tanker and is away most of the time.) One day Sophie gets an unsigned letter in the mail containing only a three-word question: "Who are you?" Soon she receives another anonymous message, asking, "Where did the world come from...
Cuban authorities are locked in a standoff with 700 would-be emigres who took over an oil tanker in the port of Mariel, intent on reaching U.S. soil. The Cubans reportedly took advantage of a security lapse and rushed aboard the Maltese-registered vessel Sunday. The number of Cubans fleeing is rising as the Communist country's economy disintegrates without Soviet aid. The U.S. Coast Guard helped 371 Cubans to shore over the weekend, the biggest three-day total since the Mariel boatlift...