Word: aquarium
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Other initiatives come from the deep pockets of eco-conscious foundations, such as the Pew Charitable Trust (assets: $4.7 billion) and the Packard Foundation ($17 billion). Next year, for example, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, with money from Packard, will lead a movement to persuade consumers to stop eating the endangered Chilean sea bass--similar to last year's campaign that urged diners to "give the swordfish a break." Says Julie Packard, vice chairman of the foundation and executive director of the aquarium: "Government regulations change with each new Administration. Consumer choices can have more lasting effects...
...England ground was wet with gray rain, but inside, warm tropical water splashed down to a rock beach dotted in shells and starfish. Perriello painted fluorescent mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large beach reeds he bought at Mahoney's Garden Center swayed as if the winds of the Bahamas had taken a detour through his room. Friends frequently surfed over to slime in the seaweed and bob with the kelp. They lounged on the beach chairs that...
...Each station, too, is an island entire of itself. The maritime frescoes of Aquarium, the charming, chiming engineering at Kendall, the platform-in-the-clouds at Charles/MGH--all make the T a bubbling congress of individuals...
Many former co-chairs have also returned to see how EWC has changed, and there is a breakfast planned for the returning co-chairs to meet the skaters over donated Dunkin' Donuts. Tours of the Boston Aquarium and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum have also been organized for this special weekend...
Mystic is also home to Mystic Aquarium, one ofthe largest in the country, and of Mystic Pizza,immortalized in a Julia Roberts movie of the samename...