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...many scientists see Biosphere 2 as a kook's dream and a rich man's whim: John Allen, who used to call himself Johnny Dolphin, the engineer, ecologist and poet-playwright who hatched the scheme and heads the project, and Texas billionaire Edward Bass, who is financing the venture, have been described as onetime members of a cultlike commune. Biosphere participants have admitted that the degrees some of them received from the Institute of Ecotechnics in London are something of a sham; the institute was set up by Bass to confer legitimacy on the project...
...papaya, mango and yellow pepper. At Mark's Place, North Miami diners line up early for Mark Militello's signature dish, curry fried oysters nestled on a tamarind-banana salsa and West Indian bread, all topped with an orange sour cream. "It's a long way from fried dolphin fingers," says Militello, laughing...
...partner in the project was determined to hire a conventional architect to create a conventionally upscale hotel -- a meretricious riot of Trumpian brass and glass. Eisner, however, wanted Graves, at the time the hottest architect in the country, to design the 758-room Swan and the 1,514-room Dolphin. "I said, 'Look, we're an entertainment company.' " Eisner got his architect, and the Disney adventure in big-time, high-profile design had begun...
...October 1987, LaBudde, now 34, persuaded the owner of a Panamanian tuna boat to hire him as a deckhand. For the next five months he drove speedboats, cooked for the crew -- and surreptitiously filmed the hundreds of dolphins trapped and drowned in the Maria Luisa's nets. The resulting 11-minute video, aired on network news shows, not only triggered a nationwide boycott of tuna in 1988 but also forced canners to change their ways. Last year H.J. Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafoods announced that they would no longer buy tuna caught in the dolphin-killing nets...
This would not be the first time such a link between pollution and plague has shown up. In a 1988 report to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, investigators suggested that a rash of dolphin deaths on America's East Coast might have resulted from bacterial infections that overwhelmed the animals' pollution-damaged immune systems. Environmentalists believe the Mediterranean case is potentially more serious, since it is happening during fall, one of the dolphins' prime breeding seasons. The disease could also spread to other mammals, including monk seals, pilot whales and sperm whales...