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...easy to raise under laboratory conditions, but they are advanced in evolutionary terms. A study of more primitive sea life, such as sharks or sturgeon, might yield greater amounts of evolutionary information; even better subjects would be lungfish and coelacanths, mysterious, nearly extinct creatures that lurk in the ocean depths and are the living fish closest to the fishlike ancestors of four-legged animals...
...MANY PARENTS OF YOUNG children, television is something far more intimidating than the vast wasteland it has been called. Instead it is an almighty ocean, perilous and all too enticing. Serial killers in cable movies, bloody episodes of Tales from the Crypt, grisly crime footage on the local news: How to protect a child from the rude shocks of the tube? Forcing all TV to conform to a safe-for-kids standard seems unfair to adults. Advisories that warn of excessive violence are fine, but who can guarantee what kids will do when parents are out of the room...
Despite his hectic schedule, Nagano has found time for a personal life. He married the Japanese-born pianist Mari Kodama in 1992. He still takes time out twice a year for a surfing holiday. Looking out over the Pacific Ocean from his hilltop home in San Francisco, he speaks wistfully of settling down, although that isn't likely soon. He is busily planning events in Lyons and Manchester well into the next millennium. "I like coming up with new ideas," he says. "And if I fail once in a while, it's worth it." Anyone who has heard him conduct...
...thoughtful, involving songs on Mirror Ball, something good must have been happening. Most of the songs are burly rock 'n' roll, with operatic guitar solos and propulsive drumming. Thematically, the CD portrays a world too hurt to feel, too overloaded with information to think. On I'm the Ocean, Young, in his nasally tenor, sings "Need distraction/ Need romance and candlelight/ Need random violence/ Need Entertainment Tonight." Several songs appear to allude to the suicide of rock star Kurt Cobain. On Peace & Love, for example, Young performs a duet with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder that deals with mourning...
...Spanish austerity, religious authority, classical humanism and African animism compete in a tight setting of cultural decay and utter remoteness. "The city lay submerged in its centuries-long torpor" pretty much sums up the situation. When Mar?a asks Father Cayetano what is on the other side of the ocean, he answers wistfully, "The world...