the cacophony of sarcophagi and other tales

There is fresh evidence that Iodine-131 has leaked into the Pacific Ocean near the site—it surged to a new high of 3,355 times the legal limit—and the government is considering an increasingly dramatic series of improvisations that make us nostalgic even for the top-hat shuffle that unfolded beneath the waves of the Gulf of Mexico.

— from The New Yorker