DEAD TIDE Synopsis by: Alvin Leaphart TRACCO, a chlorine and caustic manufacturer which uses mercury in its production process, pumps several thousand tons of sludge containing mercury into a creek which runs into Turtle River, near Brunswick, Georgia. Turtle River is a major sport and commercial fishing area. An environmental catastrophe occurs. People who live along the waterway begin to get sick from mercury poisoning. A number of infants begin to show neurological defects. Clyde Darsey, the plant manager, and Franklin Perry, his maintenance superintendent, begin to embezzle from the...

Between 10 BCE and 10 CE there began much discord in the Roman Empire. This was especially true in Judea, three decades after Herod had invited the Romans to come into the small country to aid him in gaining the throne. During this period that the Essenes, a monastic order located around Qumran, near the Dead Sea began to spark the coals of activism. Throughout the reign of Herod, and after, the Essenes were a shadow force of resistance to the Roman occupation of Judea. It was also a time when a young man called Joshua became caught up in his country's patriotic struggle for freedom. There is...