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...they can stay aloft continuously for years, dozing on the wing. In Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival--ignore the sappy subtitle--Carl Safina follows a single bird as it roams the globe gathering food for its chick (be warned: this book contains extended scenes of fish regurgitation...
Children, who are signing on to vegetarianism much faster than adults, may be educating their parents. Vegetarian food sales are savoring double-digit growth. Top restaurants have added more meatless dishes. Trendy "living foods" or "raw" restaurants are sprouting up, like Roxanne's in Larkspur, Calif., where no meat, fish, poultry or dairy items are served, and nothing is cooked to temperatures in excess of 118[degrees]F. "Going to my restaurant," says Roxanne Klein, "is like going to a really cool new country you haven't experienced before...
...their soup--a semivegetarian is no vegetarian at all. A phrase like pesco-pollo-vegetarian, to them, is an oxymoron, like "lapsed Catholic" or "semivirgin." Vegetarian Times, the bible of this particular congregation, lays down the dogma: "For many people who are working to become vegetarians, chicken and fish may be transitional foods, but they are not vegetarian foods ... the word 'vegetarian' means someone who eats no meat, fish or chicken...
...Thirty meters from shore, this geographic slicing is repeated underwater. The island mass stops abruptly in a vertical fall to the ocean floor, some 1,000 meters below. Unlike the dynamite-ravaged reefs that surround much of Selayar, the sheer rock face remains untouched and teems with varieties of fish, crustaceans and corals most people see only on the Discovery Channel...
...wall dive is somewhere between giddiness and terror. Floating above an abyss populated by the flickering forms of deepwater sea creatures takes some getting used to, but distractions abound. The wall is covered with a moving mosaic of fat, brown sea cucumbers, vivid corals, shrinking anemones and tiny, glittering fish. The deeper you go, the larger and more exotic the marine life. At 10 meters, where the wall begins, schools of giant tuna and jackfish make their rounds, undisturbed by the occasional diver, while meter-long lobsters scurry for cover, unaware that their immense claws are enough of a deterrence...