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Evidence in tow, an incredulous Nicky confronts Lesley in the book's climax, pitting his doubts against her certitude, his emotions against her coolness, attempting to wring from her a confession of responsibility. But Lesley evades everything, seeing it only as some game, and not even a macabre one at that. The confrontation, as it must be, is a stand-off: Nicky refuses to succumb to his sister's inhumane logic but neither does he press ahead for any definitive verdict against...
...Campbell of the U.S. Geological Survey. They envision "supertugs," perhaps nuclear-powered, hauling 20-mile-long islands of ice from the Antarctic* to parched coastal regions of South America and Australia. They calculate that as much as 60% to 70% of an iceberg would remain unmelted after a slow tow trip lasting as long as six months. Upon reaching port, the iceberg could be chopped up and melted. The estimated cost of iceberg water: only about 1% that of desalinated sea water...
...drove up to the hotel, got our baggage out, and they had to tow the car away," he says...
Sixty water department employees walked off their jobs Tuesday, July 24, to protest three one-day suspensions handed down by department superintendent William H. McGuiness to three truck drivers who refused to tow portable water compressors...
Then, Maine struck again. Angered that 200 lobster pots had been cut from their moorings, a patrol flagged down New Hampshire Lobsterman Edwin Capone. He allowed his boat to be taken in tow, though only after a Maine warden reached for his gun. "Maine has declared war on us!" cried Governor Thomson hyperbolically. He told his state's lobstermen: "You are soldiers in an important battle for the future of the state." But he promptly moved to disarm the crisis before the two states reach their Lobster Thermidor and start shooting, by filing a claim in the U.S. Supreme...