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...interleaved into the gaps between the three movies. We rejoin Michael Corleone still struggling to take the family business legitimate while ignoring the slow collapse of his marriage. For reasons that are never very clear, Michael tries and fails to assassinate an ambitious Corleone street soldier named Nick Geraci, who then becomes his rival and nemesis. As plots go, it's a little thin, and Winegardner doesn't have much of a feel for Michael. Al Pacino played him as a tragic Mafia genius, a dormant volcano of repressed emotion, but here he's just an icy, hypercompetent sociopath...
...will follow, even onto a beach. The closely knit whales will also converge on a calf that has accidentally grounded and is clicking and squeaking in anguish. In neither case, however, do scientists regard the whales' behavior as a suicide impulse. "That's old folklore," insists Joseph Geraci of the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Md., "and should be forgotten...
...Under their crushing weight--1,800 lbs. for an adult--organs break down and blood circulation slows, impairing cooling and putting the animals in a state of shock. Unless rescuers can push the whales back out to sea almost immediately, the animals are usually doomed by their injuries. Explains Geraci: "They have no other way to survive except to return to the shore, which, at least, keeps them from drowning...
Human activities, though, may be part of this fatal mix. Some scientists, Geraci among them, connect a rise in marine-mammal deaths to a sharp increase in toxic plankton blooms--great eruptions of poisonous algae in the sea. As the toxins from these tiny plants pass up the food chain, they become increasingly concentrated until they contaminate the fish on which seals, sea lions and whales feed. Suspected causes of the blooms: the inadvertent fertilization of coastal waters by agriculture runoffs and, most alarmingly, the rise in seawater temperatures from global warming. If so, the death of the whales last...
...Chavez '98, who is a Crimson editor; William Decherd '01; Jason M. Goldberg '98; Wesley K. Gilchrist '98; Oliver C. Haugen '98; Elena I. Pavlova '99; Laura E. Rosenbaum '00, who is a Crimson editor; Kimberly Song '98; Misasha C. Suzuki '99, and Sheila Warren '98. According to Geraci, dozens of students at schools across the country and around the world have worked on the conference...