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...like an unfiltered vox populi was bogus. Sure, the questions were no doubt thoroughly vetted before airing. (And why? Would it have killed us to have somebody ask George W. Bush if he snorted coke off a stripper's naked belly, or ask Al Gore if he shot Vincent Foster?) And sure, the questions, coming from "undecided" voters, by their nature represented a sector of the populace that hasn't paid enough attention in a year and a half of politicking to make up their damn minds already...
...gannets plunged like dive bombers into shoals of herring that had been rounded up by a pod of orcas. When eventually the pod left the feeding ground, Keiko swam in line with them. "It's like taking your kid to school for his first day," says animal behaviorist Jeff Foster, who has worked with whales for 30 years. But Keiko did not, Hollywood-style, swim off with his relatives into the sunset on this August day. Once again he returned to the boat and his more familiar human companions...
...breakwater over which the fictional Willy jumped to regain his freedom. For a start, whales' 70-to-80-year lives, 80% of which are spent below the surface, are a mystery. "We have seen a tiny percentage of the lives of just a tiny percentage of whales," says Foster...
...purpose is to foster awareness among Arab students about the challenges that are facing them in the Western and Arab world," said IASC organizer Yasmin T. Alireza...
...Foster's mandate in his deal with NASA was a broad one. In addition to creating and selling space images, he was supposed to come up with ways to help get the public involved in space and make the beleaguered agency seem exciting again. "We want them to come up with great ideas," says Patty Reilly, who works in NASA's office of space travel and commercialization. Says Foster: "We have an agreement to pitch a lot of crazy things...