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Remember Your Childhood Indulge in a cinematic exploration that harks back to those glorious, care-free days of childhood with a visit to the New England Aquarium to see “Lions 3D: Roar of the Kalahari!” New England Aquarium, Adult...
...wait. It's all right. It's good news. Two blue dolphins were choking on plastic they ate off the side of their aquarium pool, and no medical instrument could access the blockage. So, for a change, something sensible was done. The world's tallest man, all seven-foot-nine of him, was summoned - from the flock (of what, yaks?) he was herding in Inner Mongolia. His great long arm reached in past the gag reflex, grabbed the plastic and pulled it out! Mission accomplished...
...designed lighting for the original Woodstock rock festival, for the Boston Ballet and for the New England Aquarium. And then there were 30 to 40 student shows a year at Harvard. Yesterday his friends and family remembered Alan P, Symonds ’69-76 with, among other things, an original composition commemorating the notorious fire safety speech with which he preceded performances. “There was as much crying as there was laughing,” said Matt J. Corriel ’05 who performed “The Fire Speech Song...
...what's a fish eater to do? "Vote with your wallet," says Michael Sutton, who runs the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program in California. Since 1999, the aquarium has handed out pocket guides listing sustainably harvested seafood. The Marine Stewardship Council has partnered with corporations to similarly certify wild and farm-raised seafood. Some 370 products in more than two dozen countries bear the British group's "Fish Forever" label of approval. Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, among others, have made commitments to sell sustainably harvested seafood...
...public is--one expert referred to otters eating shellfish on their tummies as "buzz saws in a fur coat"--but no one doubts the value of the "aww" factor. "When you've been bitten by one, you don't think they're so cute," says Michelle Staedler, the Monterey Aquarium's sea otter research coordinator, "but then you look, and they're a big ball of fluff." [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] Hunted Nearly To Extinction Russia's Peter the Great declared a monopoly on sablein 1697 and sent hunters to find...