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A Tale of Melville, Scallop Fishing and Death

By Renée Downing
Tucson Weekly | January 13, 2005
Moby Dick fans recently gathered in New Bedford, Mass., to read the classic in a 24-hour marathon. It was a quasi-religious ritual in the shadow of death, as fishermen recently perished in the sinking of the Northern Edge off Nantucket.
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Founded in 1984, the Tucson Weekly has become an iconoclastic institution in this sprawling desert boom town with a population approaching 1 million. With its reputation for diverse, compelling journalism with an edge, the paper has built a readership of...
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