Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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It had become de rigueur in environmental protection circles to go beyond bemoaning the loss of habitats to proposing viable solutions, so it was a real win-win for both the navy and environmentalists when a decision was made to scuttle a mothballed relic so that the deck of an old destroyer could become a palimpsest supporting new ocean life, but the linchpin of the operation was finding a way to pump the tanks dry before towing the ship to its final resting place, to obviate the risk of a fuel leak at some future time.
(by wordgirl)
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Inspector Lestrade shook his head and wondered how a body could still be nomothermic several hours after death, why the purported suicide note was written on a palimpsest -- a scrap of Egyptian papyrus, judging by the little figures left in one corner, and how this man could have been hung – or strangled – with a silk necktie during daylight hours in a haberdashery known as a relict from the Victorian Age, and often crowded with tourists.
(by wordgirl)