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...boys-in-the-locker-room theory. Any guy who played sports in high school knows that homoerotic jokes and towel-snapping are an underlying part of the subculture. Similarly, male bottlenose dolphins use same-sex sexual behavior to maintain and strengthen their social relationships - although dolphins are far more explicit about their homosexual play, regularly mounting one another and (hide the kids' ears here) sticking their noses into certain boy-dolphin parts. (Very regularly: roughly half of male dolphin sex occurs with other males.) Among bonobos, same-sex sexual behavior is also thought to ease social tension and facilitate reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

Beck, Glenn •horrific dolphin impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/12/2009 | See Source »

Sometimes something comes pretty quickly. In the first contest I won, [the image] showed a panhandling dolphin, a guy reaching into his back pocket to give him some money, and a woman yelling something at him. I just tried to think about stereotypical things people think about dolphins and panhandlers. Dolphins are intelligent. And one of the most common and nastiest things people say about panhandlers is that they should get a job. And I thought of the caption (registration required). That didn't go over well with my colleagues, because I'm a poverty lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...body. Every cell in my body had the same idea. “The clouds are beautiful today, aren’t they?”“Yeah.”I began to rollover.“That one looks like some type of whale or dolphin.”My body rotated slowly so as not to disturb her cloud-gazing. I elevated myself with one elbow, and I looked deep into Katie’s shimmering brown eyes. She continued to look at the clouds.“That one looks like...

Author: By Jonathan E. Mayer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FICTION: Memento | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...wife would not have chosen to go back to Mexico anyway. Margarito's 8-year-old son, one of four U.S.-born children, is autistic. They've tried to find a program in Mexico that would work for him. There was a trip to Puerto Vallarta for dolphin therapy, which yielded little. They went to Morelia - the hometown of Margarito's wife - and found that the public schools would offer him only one hour of special education every three days, compared with 24 hours each week in St. Helens. All of which they could handle in the short term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Backlash, Illegal Immigrants Stay Put | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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