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Unfortunately, yes. The average male human brain weighs three pounds, a size exceeded only by the brains of elephants, sperm whales and dolphins. However, it is the ratio of total body weight to brain weight that is more important. In this respect, of the three above, only the dolphin compares favorably with...
...Dolphin in History. Johnson does not see buildings simply as machines for living. For him, the need for fantasy, play, memory and spectacle is just as real as the need for efficiency. Most of all, in Johnson's view, people need a sense of history. Architecture cannot give it to them by making ebullient panty raids on the sleeping past, grabbing a cornice here, a vault or pilaster there. It is a matter of integration. Not many architects now living have Johnson's integrative powers. He is a highly educated architect, able to slip like a dolphin through...
Lockheed showed off its first giant L-1011 "airbus," which gleamed under the hangar lights like a winged dolphin. While company officials sat proudly by, Governor Ronald Reagan called the new plane "one of the most sophisticated commercial jetliners ever produced." Several days later, in a neat bit of oneupmanship, McDonnell Douglas brought in Vice President Spiro Agnew to speak at the roll-out of its new airbus, the DC-10. Large enough to accommodate 270 passengers, the new planes are intended to displace the 747 on many medium-range hauls...
Lingering Stink. "McLain," reports SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, "who had previously been betting basketball and hockey with the Syrians-and losing-agreed and put up the money. Poor, dumb Denny-who is also known to his teammates as Dolphin, because he is a fish as a gambler-was easy game. The money the bettors lost was taken by the Syrians. The payouts on winning bets came from the money McLain and fatherly Ed Schober invested...
...wish: perhaps a leader gone berserk, or a quirk of weather or topology that disoriented the whales' biological sonar systems. To those who see omens, it seemed that the whales were trying to tell us something. To those who have read the remarkable novel The Day of the Dolphin, the event had a haunting ring. In that book, Novelist Robert Merle fantasizes an unsettling interview between a reporter and Bi, one of the first dolphins to master English...