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...periodontist. Nor is it always advisable for amateurs to try to reproduce the unforgettable scenes, like the one in which Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr tumble in the Hawaiian surf in From Here to Eternity. Those who attempt that on Cape Cod arise with abrasions on their shoulders and plankton in their sinuses...
This does not make Bush a closet intellectual. Bill Clinton read widely and voraciously, sampling and skimming ideas like a whale does plankton. Bush is more particular, and when he locks onto a book, he shows his trademark discipline, almost always reading it to the last page. When Sharansky stopped by, Bush sheepishly pointed out in his copy that he was only up to page 211--but said he would finish the remaining 92 pages soon...
While working on Rocko he realized that “if I were to do an animal show there is all this stuff that I am interested in that really no one has ever animated. Things like plankton...
Today, IDC analyst Charles Kolodgy says, encryption is the "plankton" of the Internet: ubiquitous, almost invisible and indispensable. An encryption program that Netscape released for free in 1994 secured $53 billion in online commerce in the first three quarters of this year. As the Internet weaves its way into more devices, so does encryption technology. Sony's PlayStation 2 consoles include encryption software that allows gamers to communicate securely with their online playmates. TiVo television-recording systems receive encrypted software updates without the owner's even realizing...
Human activities, though, may be part of this fatal mix. Some scientists, Geraci among them, connect a rise in marine-mammal deaths to a sharp increase in toxic plankton blooms--great eruptions of poisonous algae in the sea. As the toxins from these tiny plants pass up the food chain, they become increasingly concentrated until they contaminate the fish on which seals, sea lions and whales feed. Suspected causes of the blooms: the inadvertent fertilization of coastal waters by agriculture runoffs and, most alarmingly, the rise in seawater temperatures from global warming. If so, the death of the whales last...