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...DOLPHIN-SAFE TUNA...
Bisexual behavior may serve a similar function for another highly intelligent mammal: the dolphin. "Sometimes male dolphins use homosexual sex to assert dominance over other males, and other times they use it in a friendly way, but always they are negotiating relationships," says Richard Connor, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
...gold and wrote a paper on the biomechanics of running 13-step hurdles. Four years ago, at the U.S. Olympic trials, backstroker David Berkoff set a new world record in the 100-m race by swimming more than two-thirds of the first 50 m underwater using the dolphin kick. Today nearly everyone employs the maneuver, which cuts drag, but only for 15 m, the maximum allowed by newly set rules...
...attractive blend of wit, glamour and function. Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan and Dolphin hotels in Florida) and Robert A.M. Stern (for the deliriously Disneyesque Casting Center...
Nevertheless, Goudge does not try to disguise that her artistic aspiration is to write popular fiction as opposed to great literature. She calims to have been inspired to write by a third cousin, Elizabeth Goudge, who wrote fiction with titles such as Towers in the Mist and Green Dolphin Lane which were widely read in Victorian England...