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More startling attempts to cater to the jaded palate are due in the next few years. Norwegian scientists are perfecting something called the tunge sole, a hybrid that grows fast, tastes like delicate Dover sole and has enormous commercial potential. At Maine's Darling Marine Center, specialists are breeding an electric-blue lobster (an extreme rarity in the wild) as a future food source. It also provides a brilliantly visible marker for checking on the success rate of hatcheries...
...Commonwealth's fortunes are to change for the better, it is precisely this type of (rare) politician--one who does not cater his or her speech or actions with an eye to the polls--that will be necessary on Beacon Hill...
Harvard students are attempting to expand an a capella group which seeks to cater to the musical interests of lesbian and bisexual women...
...American male has evolved, however, and the magazines that cater to his fantasy life have struggled to adjust to his expanded interest in health, psychology, relationships and children. They may not have moved quickly enough. Circulation has dropped at the longtime leaders: since the early 1970s, Playboy's has plummeted from almost 7 million to half that, and Penthouse's has shrunk from 3 million to 1.7 million. That falloff is mirrored among women's magazines...
Under a full-fledged voucher system, private institutions would spring up to cater to the needs of parents who demand better education. The vouchers would, in theory, provide roughly the same amount of money as it now costs to educate each student in the public schools; in some over-bureaucratized systems like New York City's, that is more than $5,500 a year, higher than the tuition at some private schools. Government would still have a role: private schools, as they do today, would have to abide by state certification standards and could not racially discriminate. Chubb...