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With its forest of steel masts, miles of cable rigging and giant, sail-shaped glass roof, the new aquarium that opened in Lisbon last week looks like a futuristic ship preparing for exploration. That's as it should be: The aquarium, the largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos...
Even in such distinguished company, Lisbon's Oceans Pavilion stands out. Its titanic 1.2 million-gal. central tank and four side tanks (holding an additional 300,000 gal.) are home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated...
Here in Portugal, sometimes called the poorest country in Europe, we've been using electronic cash cards for more than two years. The kids at school have them; I use mine daily. Cash cards are all over the place. Does this mean that Portuguese villagers in the suburbs of Lisbon are technologically ahead of people in the Big Apple? ORMOND FANNON Cascais, Portugal...
...RTPi--Radio Televiso Portugal internacional. Channel 69 on your local Cablevision directory...club matches pop up from time to time between stylish clubs like Benfica, Porto and Sporting Lisbon, broadcast in the lovely Portugese language (a kind of cross between Spanish and Russian...
Starting in 1974, David taught high school English for two years in Lisbon, Iowa, a town where his parents had lived for a while when he and Ted were at college. Co-workers describe a popular teacher who cared greatly for his students and nothing for material things. If he ever had a proper winter coat, no one seems to have seen it. When guests came to his apartment, he served them soft drinks in jelly jars. But unlike Ted, David demonstrated a gift for human contact. Though not much of an athlete, he joined the other high school faculty...