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...penicillin for a whale...
Some blame diseases or parasitic infections that affect the animals' navigational ability. Others believe whales may simply become lost in pursuit of prey. Some even speculate about an atavistic urge -perhaps triggered by stress-that causes these ancient mammals to seek the safety of the land from which their ancestors migrated. The beach-bound victims are usually small, toothed whales, like the pilot and false killer. But when a whale tried to beach itself just east of New York harbor, it was a very special case...
...Beach, Calif., is being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa Corp. The Goose, moved by tugboat last fall to a site a quarter mile away, has a temporary home in a circus tent. A reporter enters the tent prepared to see a dead whale on a flatcar...
Typically, Manfred Eicher, 35, the founder, manager and premier producer of ECM, will fly his musicians into a Norwegian studio nicknamed the Whale, right in the heart of downtown Oslo. The musicians start to work as soon as they shake off the jet lag. An album usually takes two days to record-a day for each side-with a third day reserved for mixing. Very businesslike, minimal distractions. Oslo is short on hotspots likely to divert attention from the matter at hand. For fun, the musicians trundle off to the Edvard Munch Museum...
...deprive persons of life without due process of law, human life shall be deemed to exist from conception." The intent is clear. Explains Hyde: "If the fetus is human life, as of course it is, it ought to be accorded equal dignity with the snail darter and the sperm whale." The effect of the bill, theoretically, would be to allow the states to pass laws defining abortion as murder...