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...pursue and trap these sociable, intelligent cetaceans? The dolphins are merely a fisherman's convenience. A few feet beneath them swims the real object of the hunt: a huge school of yellowfin tuna, which for reasons that baffle scientists often congregate below pods of dolphins. More than 90% of the yellowfin caught by the U.S. tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they...
...more than 1,500 of the 2,200 passengers to the bottom of the sea on her maiden voyage in April 1912. "It was a breathtaking experience," says Marine Geologist Robert Ballard, 44, who located the wreck last September some 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland and 13,000 ft. beneath the surface, and returned last week to explore...
Forty-eight hours later, Chirac appeared on television to announce that the decree would be submitted instead as a separate parliamentary bill to the National Assembly, where his coalition holds a three-vote majority. Sitting beneath a Gobelin tapestry in his office in the Hotel de Matignon, Chirac politely but pointedly called Mitterrand's concerns "without any foundation" and termed the President's refusal to sign "without precedent...
Enough carping. In an age that rewards strength over grace, let there be women as strong as Weaver's Ripley. May homeless children have no less ferocious an adoptive mother; may extraterrestrial predators meet no less resourceful an antagonist. Trust that a million moviegoers will find the glamour beneath the smudged sweat on Ripley's face, and the feral humor in her challenge to Big Mama Alien: "Get away from her, you bitch...
...Alien and its new sequel, Weaver has been able to commandeer center screen with a character she larkishly calls "Rambolina." Beneath the armor, though, she has found exotic soulmates: "I secretly structured myself to play Ripley like Henry V and like the women warriors of classic Chinese literature." Aliens was no take-the-money-and-run proposition (though she was paid $1 million, about 30 times her salary for the 1979 original). As Cameron remarks, "She's intensely prepared. Her copy of the script was marked with 17 different colors of ink. The margin notes were incredible...