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...visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium, directed by marine biologist Julie Packard. Her Deepness takes to the place like a five-year-old. She leads me from exhibit to exhibit, dividing her attention between my education and anyone else staring at a fish. To a girl in pigtails eyeing a flounder she says, "See? He's looking at you too!" Earle is one of those dangerous people whose buoyant charm can make people do preposterous things. At a mere signal of her hand, I find myself on all fours, crawling through the toddler entrance to the exhibit for children...
...this will merely cement Spielberg's reputation as Hollywood's perpetual winner, a cinematic genius and shrewd moneymaker who is almost incapable of taking false steps. Even when he does flounder, as he did with Amistad, he seems to bounce back with a stronger, more awe-inspiring, more heartfelt success than ever before. Such appears to be the case with his latest film. But the lovefest spawned by Saving Private Ryan has prevented most critics from questioning Spielberg's motivation in creating such a movie, which is by no means clear...
LONDON: Britain's bid to persuade France to hand over a loose-lipped former MI5 spy may flounder on a simple legal point -- the "crime" of which David Shayler is accused is not illegal in France. When Shayler threatened to use the Web to expose the inner workings of Britain's spy agency, London sought extradition in order to try Shayler under its draconian Official Secrets Act, which gags former government employees. Shayler was arrested in France over the weekend, and the British government now has 40 days to convince a French court to carry out the extradition...
Bottom trawlers drag large, weighted nets over the sea floor to catch shrimp and ground feeders like cod, hake, haddock, halibut and flounder. In the process, the nets haul up everything in their path, contributing heavily to the nearly 30 million tons of damaged or dying "bycatch" that fishermen toss overboard each year. Carl Safina of the National Audubon Society calls it "scorched earth fishing...
...Cambridge last spring for my 25th reunion, what I heard over and over from the men as well as the women undergraduates employed as reunion aides was that Harvard had left them--exactly as it had left my male classmates nearly three decades ago--to bewilderingly wander and flounder. Harvard offers virtually no academic counseling about possible courses of study or concentrations, thus robbing students of any capacity to glean the most from their educational experience. It provides even less guidance for the heart and soul, adroit psychological counseling--evidence of a caring in loco parentis--being somehow distasteful...