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