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...little transparent legs regretfully descending to the seabed, its filigree antennae brushing the tubular plants nearby; a miniature, delicate, barely perceptible glass sculpture, shyly animate. He was a tenuously fashioned creature, seemingly held together ?? his good nature and preserved from summary consumption by the sea's deference to his harmless beauty-too small and pure to cause jealousy. He was cheerful, diffident, rubicund, a gloryfish...
...this be explained? As a "harmless" example of the kind of infantile, insolent, cutesy-ness people associate with the Crimson? We think...
...once fifth lowest in the world, is now 13th lowest. But many of its points are soundly made. While placing a large share of the blame on practices of the food industry, Nader's Raiders hit hard at the FDA for frittering away its limited resources on relatively harmless quacks while letting major corporations go virtually unregulated. They note that the agency has only two men enforcing the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1967, whereas proper enforcement could save consumers between $1 billion and $10 billion annually. They also suggest that the FDA do more...
...penguin (named for its harsh bray). Proceeding upward, the visitor brushes past a large and almost frightening mural covered with life-size silhouettes of sharks. He joins the youngsters at the children's tidal pool -where they are encouraged to reach in and touch starfish, tiny crabs and harmless sea urchins. Finally, as he approaches the highest level, he walks under an awesome 35-foot-long skeleton of an Atlantic right whale...
...national pastime for Italians. For nearly a decade they have been carting lire by the billions across the border, partly to evade domestic taxes and partly in response to better investment opportunities in other countries. Though aware of the illicit traffic, Italian governments have tolerated it as comparatively harmless in a thriving economy...