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...Photos From the Event: Quotes from the Conference Scenes from the Conference The Monterey Aquarium...
...watch and wait for now, hoping that the wind and wave patterns will soon shift, sparing further damage to wildlife, fisheries and coastline. The Portuguese pray that the black gunk will not reach their shores; environmentalists hope it also will miss Spain's Las Islas Cies national park, the Aquarium Finisterre complex and other areas of great biodiversity. Out at sea, meanwhile, slicks break up and recongeal, changing in size, shape and number, making it difficult to gauge the exact scale of the spillage. The cleanup will be paid for by the ship's insurers, as well as a fund...
...Harris, she told me, "Japan could be like North Korea" today. Now there's a sobering thought. It helped to explain the Perry and Harris-mania that grips the town. By that I mean the "black ship" manholes in the streets, the Perry Aqua Dome at the Shimoda Aquarium and the dramatization of the Harris and Okichi story in tourist literature. The place even celebrates a black ship festival every May. Town officials are busily planning for 2004 celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Perry's landing in Shimoda Bay and there is also an annual ceremony at Ryosenji temple...
...WORLD Shimoda's floating aquarium would be just another run-of-the-mill m?lange of fish tanks and lazy sea otters were it not for one feature: heavy petting. Of dolphins, that is. The aquarium offers a variety of "dolphin contact" activities like the one I witnessed at the outdoor pool. Five rubber-suited visitors waded hip-deep into the water to touch, rub and coo over a handful of trained dolphins, including one that resembled a small whale. The idea of touching animals with big teeth freaks me out, so I retreated to the relative calm...
...when the cameras are on, like their Survivor and Fear Factor brethren, the performers come alive. Among the segments in the film is one in which Knoxville's friends administer paper cuts to the webbing of his feet and hands before submerging them in an aquarium full of rubbing alcohol. In another, Steve-O, who had never walked a tight-rope, walks one over a lake swarming with alligators. (He falls after two steps but somehow avoids getting hurt.) One has Magera, known for traumatizing his father on the show, breaking into the bathroom while his father...