Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should paraphrase a few of these pieces in order to get a feel for this innovative style of fiction. In one such "flash" a man falls in love with two girls, trapped in an aquarium, who look like they are content to stay there...
...Camden -- a project that many people are convinced is the seed of a new city. Investors have pulled together roughly a quarter of a billion dollars that will bring to the Delaware waterfront the headquarters for GE Aerospace, plus a hotel, waterfront park, the nation's second largest aquarium and an office tower to contain the world headquarters of Campbell's Soup. The hope, says Thomas Corcoran, president of the Coopers Ferry Development Association, is that the complex will strengthen the tax base, bring in new jobs and restore to the residents a much needed sense of civic pride...
...second conservation meter has popped up at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and zoos and aquariums in more than 20 other cities, including Seattle and Philadelphia, have requested the machines, which were developed with financial backing from the Virginia-based Nature Conservancy. If each of the 1 million annual visitors to the San Francisco Zoo gave 25 cents, the $250,000 could purchase more than 800 hectares of rain forest. Nationwide, more than 120 million annual zoo visitors could save 100,000 hectares a year. Impressive though that sounds, it will take many more quarters to reverse the fate...
...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...
...Fair A day at the New England Aquarium...