Word: dolphine
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...unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Giddy at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha - the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin on her ankle - are among London's most sought-after party guests. Says Gregory Barker, a Tory M.P. and member of Cameron's campaign team: "People sniff Camelot...
...shed tears for any community that indulges the cynical, multimillion-dollar whims of professional sports the way Americans do. When I moved here eight years ago, my mortgage broker spent less time explaining 30-year fixed rates than he did showing me all the autographed pictures of his Dolphin player clients - and his customer appreciation gift was a certificate to the steakhouse of legendary Dolphin coach Don Shula, where you order off menus inscribed on footballs. That kind of blind fan ardor lets franchises like the Dolphins get away with pinching families as much for tickets, parking and hot dogs...
...shouldn't airports have a reading section? I stare at the item in the New York Times about the rare white Chinese river dolphin finally driven "functionally extinct" after surviving for 20 million years, and then I look at my knuckles. They, too, are white. In the midst of this low-decibel bedlam, how can anyone concentrate long enough to read anything? Except, up there on the screen, the crawl. Got... to... focus... on... the... crawl...
...conundrum. But what is this on the screen? A dolphin. In China. With an enormous human arm shoved down its throat! It's not enough that they're overfishing dolphins to extinction, they're torturing the last survivor! Is there at long last no decency left...
...much larger group of (normally indifferent) consumers to buy brands that promised adequate labor conditions. This story shows that consumers want to inject some moral vigor into their largely materialist lives—and that businesses respond. From “hormone-free” to “dolphin safe” to “biodegradable,” products brandish such quasi-moral labels with a righteousness seldom found outside of religious circles...