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...consumption. Apparently, some distributors botched the reversal process and unwittingly created a deadly poison. But the adulterated oil was already on the market, being peddled by door-to-door salesmen who unsuspectingly offered their lethal wares as a bargain for hard-pressed families. At about $5.50 for a 5-gal. plastic container, the oil cost 25% less than a comparable amount of olive...
...birth occurred last month in a 50,000-gal. tank at the New York Aquarium, just off the boardwalk at Brooklyn's Coney Island. Both parents are performing belugas that regularly entertain visitors with such antics as retrieving objects and bussing their keepers. Because of their intelligence, size and docility, belugas (their name means white in Russian) have long been a favorite of aquariums and aquatic shows. At least three other baby belugas have been born in captivity, but none survived longer than a few weeks...
...mile journey: the 270-mile trip from Wainwright on the western flanks of northern Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. Here the tugs putter along at four to five knots, creeping above shoals that, in places, lie only 5 ft. beneath hulls still weighted down with 100,000 gal. of diesel fuel. Kardonsky, 56, looks up from his charts with a shy grin: "Sometimes it's so shallow your ulcers start chewing each other...
...harbor, the aquarium-city-owned and built without federal funds-was begun in 1976. Although Congress did not contribute funds for its construction, it nevertheless designated the rising structure a national aquarium in 1979. By July its three huge tanks were filled with almost 500,000 gal. of salt water (most of it synthetic, since the genuine briny from the Inner Harbor does not have enough salt to sustain many marine creatures) and were ready to receive the first of some 5,000 fish, mammals, birds and amphibians that the aquarium now contains. A hoped-for completion date of July...
...them if they did not run the Executive Branch efficiently, and equal woe if they failed at improvident spellbinding. Small talk seems to have flummoxed some of them. During the 1824 campaign, John Quincy Adams was approached by an old farmer, who said: "My wife, when she was a gal, lived in your father's family; you were then a little boy; and she has often combed your head." Adams' reply effectively sank the exchange: "Well, I suppose she combs yours now." William Howard Taft's advisers desperately tried to hide his poor memory for names...