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Many are concerned that a proliferation of swim programs will make them hard to regulate. "Every hotel in Hawaii wants to put a dolphin in the pool," asserts Georgia Cranmore of the NMFS. The agency has shut down one dolphin swim program, at the Hawk's Cay Hotel in Florida...
The dolphins in the Hyatt program are juveniles, but adult male dolphins can be rough with humans and even sexually aggressive with women, whom they can easily distinguish from men. William Evans, a former head of NMFS, worries about the risk of injury to people from the 200-kg (about...
Dolphins might have avoided all this attention if evolution had contrived to give them a permanent frown instead of a permanent smile, or if their foreheads, which bulge with echo-location organs, did not make them look so intelligent. But for whatever reason, people think of the animals as special...
LINDA RONSTADT: CRY LIKE A RAINSTORM, HOWL LIKE THE WIND (Elektra/Asylum). Ronstadt takes lessons learned from her three successful albums of pop standards and puts them to work on the kind of material she did so well in the '70s: confessional ballads and songs of love gone amiss. The cathedral...
Mostly, however, U.S. officials sought to downplay the crisis that had caught them so unprepared. But beneath the bravado, there were signs of unease. Officials who publicly condoned the Salvadoran military's air attacks privately conceded that there was no way to prevent them from causing civilian casualties. "There is...