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Take the T to the New England Aquarium for a change of scenery. Observe ocean circulation and weather pattern images with the their new interactive satellite. Then watch the ocean deep on a towering IMAX screen after waddling back from the Little Blue Penguin exhibit. New England Aquarium, Central Wharf. 973-5200. Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday...
Perhaps we as individuals feel that we are mere drops in the ocean to the administration, and that stops us from taking the first step towards action; but imagine, for a moment, how it would feel to be a survivor of rape, and to be treated the way these two students were...
...survive that race. Not long after setting out from Cape Town, she lost a mast to heavy seas and limped to the remote Kerguelen Islands, where she had arranged for a new mast. But about 1,000 miles south of Australia, in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, her boat was overcome by a monumental wave and rolled a full 360[degrees]. Its rigging and even a chunk of its deck were stripped off. Had Autissier not been belowdecks, she would have been swept overboard. The Australian air force watched over her for four days until a navy frigate...
Woven together with haunting languge and a bizarre story line, Ocean Sea centers around four lost souls staying at a seaside inn, each hoping that the ocean's therapeutic power will heal their spiritual wounds. The characters are a mixture of precocious children and wizened adults who all offer trite commentary on the book's constant effort to present deep and soul-searching questions. Perhaps the most ridiculous characters are the two men: Professor Bartleboom, who tries to measure the end of the infinite sea, and Plasson the painter who tries to paint where the sea begins. As Bartleboom combs...
Baricco attempts to take the reader to a fantasy world along with the characters, and at times his haunting style does create an ocean-like rhythm. But when the inn elevates from the ground and disappears on the final page, the reader is left unsatisfied and even unsure of what thebook was all about in the first place...