Word: aquarium
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...home rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absentmindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately retrieved them just before my highly sensitive aquarium fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish...
...genius that the attorney general in this religious passion play is the same Public Official whose minions once burned down a compound of believers in Texas, incinerating a number of the faithful. So the attorney general, her eyes behind bottle-bottom glasses looking like enormous, startled fish in an aquarium, proceeds with the anguished metaphysical doubt of one who has seen the Fire. What is the Law of mere Caesar in the face of Faith and Passion...
...aren't distracted by his clothes. I like the gray/black format. It's also really quality material. I don't imagine his wardrobe is huge. I think he probably has a few things of really good quality. He looks like that boy who would have a really nice aquarium...
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...