Word: dolphin
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...Squish the Fish" posters and a dolphin hung in effigy ellicit a few snickers and whistles, but a "Bush/Quayle" sign erupts the stands into a minute-long shouting match...
about football it's only because they want agood rumble. The drunk Boston-accented triostanding in the very last row of the stadiumcertainly seems psyched about their team, butwithout the beer and the obnoxious Dolphin fansitting four rows up, they'd probably snooze...
...some, for most, the race is an excuse to see friends, drink beer. For them, the rowing is incidental. They might as well be watching speed boat races. Or a dolphin show...
...start, then shove violently backward with their legs, hands together, streamlined, above their heads. They go underwater this way, then pop to the surface in five meters or so and begin stroking. Except Berkoff. He stays 5 ft. underwater, on his back, wriggling along with a legs-together dolphin kick, like that used by butterflyers. This is astonishing not to see. Most of the lanes are filled with thrashing swimmers, and Berkoff's is placid. At 35 meters (or 32 kicks, as he counts underwater), Berkoff pops up, half a body length ahead of everyone else. Not, he says, desperate...
...zoom on a target zone, allowing users to pick out a fish hovering a mere 1 1/2 in. off the bottom. Other refinements include alarms that signal a fish's presence and multihued video screens that are designed to identify various species by a color code -- red for dolphin, for example, or pink for bottom feeders like grouper and snapper...