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...oceans also have vast reserves of commercially valuable minerals, including nickel, iron, manganese, copper and cobalt. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are already analyzing deep-sea bacteria, fish and marine plants looking for substances that they might someday turn into miracle drugs. Says Bruce Robison, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California: "I can guarantee you that the discoveries beneficial to mankind will far outweigh those of the space program over the next couple of decades. If we can get to the abyss regularly, there will be immediate payoffs...
...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that willtake you from the Old State House to museums andlandmarks along the Boston waterfront includingthe Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium(T: Aquarium, on the blue line) and the Boston TeaParty Ship...
...money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured in a tank accident in the Army. "When I come home from work...
Paradise. 967 Comm Ave., Boston. 254-2052. Aquarium Rescue Unite and Planet Be on Thurs., March...
...kids loved him. But the 3.5-ton star of the hit movie Free Willy had outgrown his tank at a Mexico City amusement park, and he suffered from a herpes-like skin condition. After an outpouring of letters, his Mexican owners are donating him to a more spacious aquarium in Oregon, where he will be readied for a life of freedom in the waters off Iceland...