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Big Miracle

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by Tom Rose

icebreakers

  Iceland crisis and

  rumors of involvement

  whaling industry

  sperm whales

  spouse sharing

  Standard Oil

  Standard Oil Trust

  State Department, U.S.

  state taxes

  Stevens, Ted

  Stocking, Brad

  subsistence whaling

  Sumii, Takao

  Swaggart, Jimmy

  Tate, Fran

  television networks. See specific networks

  Tengelmann

  3M

  toilets, outdoor

  Tonight Show, The

  Top of the World Hotel (Barrow)

  Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)

  Trans-Alaska Pipeline

  tundra

  Turnagain Arm

  umiaks (sealskin boats)

  U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

  Utqiagviq. See also Barrow (Alaska)

  Valdez (Alaska)

  VECO, Inc.

  Exxon Valdez oil spill and

  hoverbarge operation

  ice bullet

  screw tractor

  Verity, William

  Viking space probe

  vitamin D

  Vladimir Arseniev (icebreaker)

  Wall Street Journal

  Washington Post

  Wasserman, Dan

  wealth effect

  Weather Service, U.S.

  Webster, Noah

  West Germany, boycott of Iceland fish

  Weston, Russ

  whale hunting

  dangers of

  modern equipment for

  quotas

  sharing whale wealth

  subsistence whaling

  whale conservation versus

  whale oil

  whales. See also bowhead whales; California gray whales; specific whales and specific types of whales

  airlifting

  in animal mythology

  Beluga

  blue

  characteristics

  drowning

  humpback

  Inupiat and

  killer

  meat

  migration

  parasites

  products

  slaughtering

  sperm

  tagging

  tranquilizing

  whale strandings

  whale watching

  White House Communication Agency

  White House Signal Corps

  whiteouts

  Wilhelm, Maria

  wind power

  Withrow, Dave

  World News This Evening

  World News This Morning

  World Society for the Protection of Animals

  World War II

  World Whale Federation

  Yamasaki, Taro

  Yukon River basin

  TOM ROSE covered the 1988 whale rescue as a reporter and producer for Japanese TV. He spent the next several months in Alaska interviewing every major player involved in both the rescue and the media coverage of it. Today, Rose, the former publisher and CEO of The Jerusalem Post, cohosts the Bauer & Rose show on Sirius/XM satellite radio. He writes and comments regularly on American and Middle East politics. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

  BIG MIRACLE. Copyright © 2011 by Tom Rose. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.stmartins.com

  e-ISBN 9781429938648

  First Edition: December 2011

 

 

 


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