Checking Crichton's footnotes

MICHAEL CRICHTON'S latest novel, ''State of Fear'' (HarperCollins), arrived with near-perfect timing. Even as real-world tsunamis slammed coasts across the Indian Ocean, here was a book in which radical eco-terrorists plot to douse California with fake ones--all to convince the public to worry about global warming and the disasters it can cause. (Full article: 968 words)

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