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Thanks largely to Chermayeff's passion and innovative eye, big-city aquariums are more popular than ever. His sparkling creations in Boston; Baltimore, Md.; Osaka; and Chattanooga, Tenn., have revitalized stagnant waterfronts and are pulling in huge crowds. The Genoa Aquarium, created with architect Renzo Piano, is Italy's fourth most popular tourist attraction and is drawing more visitors each year than the Uffizi...
...branch constituted an earnest and convivial army of 4.1 million. Yet today those ranks are decimated. True, the group is still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million national membership, notes Richard Fletcher of the Masonic Information Center in Silver Spring, Md., is "the lowest it's been in some time." By which he means since around 1888. And it will plummet further, since the average brother is pushing 70. To baby boomers the Masons are a fusty memory. To the boomers' children, well, it's a philosophical conundrum: if a million...
Glass wasn't just good at getting into those rooms; he was good at inventing them. He appears to be something rare in journalism: a genuine con man who made up not just quotations but people, corporations, legislation--even a "National Memorabilia Convention" ("held last weekend in Rockville, Md."), where vendors hawked such Lewinsky-related items as an inflatable Monica doll that recited Leaves of Grass...
Three members of the Harvard women's water polo team qualified for the National Women's Water Polo "B" Team-East Coast at the National Team try-outs this past weekend in Annapolis, Md. Jesse Gunderson, Natasha Magnuson and Mary Naber, a former Crimson executive, were initially invited to the National try-outs earlier this month and have continued training past the end of the regular season...
...Satan will assure that Pol Pot's everlasting sleep is anything but peaceful [WORLD, April 27], then justice will have been served! KARA SULLIVAN Silver Spring, Md...