Word: whaled
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Great literature often concerns self-discovery through encounter with the Other. In Heart of Darkness, Marlow meets Colonel Kurtz and realizes that a thin line separates the values of civilization and insanity. In Moby-Dick,this guy's chasing around a big whale, but the whale is really a part of him, or at least that's what my Cliffs Notes say. In the Famed "street person episode" of "Diff'rent Strokes," Arnold encounters an epileptic homeless mime, and learns that deep inside, we all have motor co-ordination problems. All of these characters learn and grow through their brush...
...They're always giving you the wrong signals." Day 2. Girls, shmirls. Who needs 'em? I decided my next encounter with the Other should be wholesome and asexual. The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard describes the Outing Club as "dedicated to outdoor fun and adventure." Just like that whale in Moby-Dick. I head over to club headquarters to pick up a 'dopesheet' describing upcoming outing opportunities. One of the trips listed is a "multi-day ski-backpack-camping trip to Mt. Bond in the Whites." Mount Bond in the Whites. I liked the ring of that. It sounded...
...came flooding back to me, such as the time Yasser Arafat crashed my Bar Mitzvah, and the time I tried to sue my parents to return my foreskin. So much for my epiphany. I had met the Other, and he was me. At least Ahab got to fight a whale...
That's a problem for some marine biologists and a lot of whale lovers. Both groups came to Washington last week to speak out against an experiment involving the boom boxes. The $35 million project, set up by San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is designed to find out whether the much / feared global warming is actually occurring. At regular intervals over a period of years, scientists will fire acoustic "shots" across the water and measure the time it takes them to span great stretches of the Pacific. Since sound moves faster in warm water than in cold, researchers...
...dispute pits environmentalists against one another: those who worry more about global warming vs. those who fret more about animal welfare. Lindy Weilgart, a Cornell University expert on whale acoustics, pointed out at hearings before the National Marine Fisheries Service that whales and other marine mammals rely on exquisitely sensitive hearing for hunting, navigating and socializing. Noise pollution from the experiment, she fears, could disrupt the mating and migration patterns of hundreds of thousands of animals. As Weilgart put it, "A deaf whale is a dead whale...