An environmental crisis of such magnitude that mankind may be powerless to stop it has begun to unfold along the coast of New England. All along the once pristine coast from Maine to Massachusetts, thousands of rubber duckies have begun washing ashore. The once cute bathtub toys originally fell off a storm-tossed cargo ship in the north Pacific in 1992. Since that time, ocean currents have carried them through the Bering Strait, the arctic ocean, and into the north Atlantic. Now the little artificial aquatic waterfowl are coming home to roost.... So to speak.