Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasonable enough to speculate, I think, that the President was watching what he ate with the thought that he didn't want his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to inspire a lot of Save-the-Whale jokes on late-night television. He was, in fact, photographed emerging from the surf, and he looked nothing at all like William Howard Taft...
...million years of evolutionary trial and error, nature pretty much ran out of ways to improve on its handiwork. Today more than 350 species swim the planet, ranging in size from the less-than-1-ft.-long dwarf shark and pygmy ribbontail catfish shark to the 50-ft. whale shark. Sharks have insinuated themselves into every marine environment from the Arctic to the tropics. One species, the bull shark, even ventures into rivers and lakes as far as 2,000 miles from the nearest salt water...
...down further, NMFS announced last spring that it was cutting this year's quota for large coastal sharks by 50%, to 1,285 metric tons, as well as establishing the first quota ever for small coastal sharks and banning commercial harvests of five species considered especially prone to overfishing--whale, basking, white, sand tiger and bigeye sand tiger. Outraged fishermen have responded by suing the Secretary of Commerce. Conservation is important, agrees Robert Spaeth, head of the Southern Offshore Fishing Association, but he argues that shark populations are difficult to count accurately--an assertion biologists agree with--and that...
Find several roommates and friends you trust to share storage space, says Martin D. Zito, manager of Summerfields Self Storage, Zito's Boston building is visible from I-93, and its enormous whale mural covers an entire side of the building...
...DiCenso says, "the owners are pretty proud of their heritage," and it shows in the many posters plastered around the small restaurant. Live vines are twined about the ceiling. On one wall is a rather trippy mural that shows Pinocchio eating a slice of pizza and fleeing a whale. "The story of Pinocchio originated in Italy," explained DiCenso...