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...website that asks: "Why Study America?" The site features interviews with people enrolled in American-studies courses (one student says he's developed a "toolbox" to analyze cultural phenomena such as ripped jeans), useful factoids (the novel Moby Dick tells the story of the hunt for a whale, not a criminal), and a video that shows Chevy trucks traversing the U.S. to a background of nostalgic folk music...
...known species of mammal on the planet. That isn't as straightforward as you might think. New species are discovered constantly - the total number of known mammalian species is up 19% since 1992. Though they're the largest type of animals, mammals range in size from the titanic blue whale to the tiny mouse lemurs of Madagascar, which can fit in the palm of your hand. What they have in common are clear threats from us. "Mammals are important because they play key roles in ecosystems and provide important benefits to humans," says Andrew Smith, a biologist at Arizona State...
...society. Its best companies set global standards for innovation and efficiency. Its artists have a style and grace that has won them admirers the world over. And yet when it comes to the headline measure by which a nation is often gauged - the effectiveness of its political system - this whale is reduced to a minnow. Witness the resignation of Yasuo Fukuda after a lackluster year as Prime Minister. In terms of political reform, Fukuda was a failure; so was his predecessor, Shinzo Abe, and if there are any who have high hopes for Fukuda's likely successors, they are keeping...
...weekend, stop by Kolaportid, the old flea market that also makes a cameo in 101, where merchants from outside the city go to gossip over coffee and doughnuts and sell their wares. There aren't a lot of places in the world where you can buy guillemot eggs, whale, vinyl records and old Icelandic textbooks under the same roof. By the time you're out, as the sun gets ready for its 3 p.m. retreat, head to Sundhöllin, the city's oldest and most beautiful bathing pool, where you can sit under the falling snow in an outdoor...
...nothing but salt water. Clark, a burly, bearded man, threw his float-equipped Cessna into a tight, 80 degrees bank, and a few moments later landed in the light chop near a sizable school of big black-and- white orcas, the clownish and sociable five-ton mammals called killer whales. Pointed black fins and huge wet backs surrounded the plane in a companionable way. A mother whale and her calf bobbed by. The pilot watched in awe with his passenger. He could count on finding mountain goats on most any flight and . perhaps a few sea otters floating on their...