Word: otters
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...puzzle is, How did people miss the big transition? It's not that Eastwood has been toiling in obscurity, making little jewels about the plight of the sea otter in the Gulf of Alaska. This is a man who has been the biggest draw in movie theaters for more than 20 years. How big? The 21 movies he has made for Warner Bros. since 1971 have had box-office sales of $1.2 billion worldwide. (Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger may one day be contenders.) The videotape sales of his movies have brought in an additional $139 million, and the sound...
...while the social structure of the remaining groups appears to be breaking down. Several large colonies of murres, a seabird, have not produced any chicks in the years since the spill. Harlequin ducks, black oyster catchers and other animals have been contaminated by eating oil-drenched mussels, and sea-otter populations are hemorrhaging, literally and figuratively -- a side effect of hydrocarbon poisoning...
...advantages of habitat acquisition are manifold. Old-growth forests provide nesting sites for some of the bird species harmed by the spill. Watersheds and upland forests offer food and breeding areas for mink and river otter as well as salmon and other fish. Protecting prime habitat from logging and development will also benefit hunters, fishermen, kayakers, hikers and the growing tourist industry...
...Eliot Gardiner and friends. Furthermore, the principals negotiate the passages of secco recitative with a rare sense for the shape that can be given to each phrase. Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Tito does an admirable job with a role that too easily becomes lifeless and statuesque. Anne Sofie von Otter is a brilliant Sesto, while Julia Varady's Vitellia is truly arresting, combining sensuality with vengeful duplicity. The orchestral playing, through the ministrations of the English Baroque Soloists, is tightly controlled and thoughtful, and the obbligato parts are spectacular. This is a truly visionary interpretation of a work that badly...
...baidarka changed markedly under the influence of the Russians and then began to disappear with the end of the sea-otter hunts in the last century. After World War II, the Aleuts switched to motor-powered craft. In his efforts to reconstruct the original kayaks, Dyson, based in Bellingham, Wash., relies on early accounts of explorers and sea captains...