Word: whaling
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...when some islands were set aside as wildlife sanctuaries. The national park was created in 1959; in 1986 more than 27,000 sq. mi. of ocean in and around the archipelago was designated a Marine Resources Reserve, and four years later the inland waters also became an International Whale Sanctuary. The Galapagos have also been designated a unesco World Heritage Site and a Man and the Biosphere Reserve...
These questions hum in the background of Timberg's text: Does America need a warrior class? When? How trained? How protected from their own politicians? Should they be kept belowdecks like Ahab's harpooners and brought up only when there is a white whale to be killed? Vietnam was the white whale, sure enough...
...assume that a CD from a vegetarian libertarian Christian techno-artist who claims to be a descendant of Herman Melville's would be unbearable, right? Well, no. Everything Is Wrong, the new album from MOBY (yes, like the whale), is quite all right. Moby, whose earlier releases include Thousand, after the number of beats it has per minute, offers music to dance to, or pray to. "I call it 'emotional music,'" he says, "because it's all over the place...
Michael Chabon's likable first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a lighthearted account of a young man growing up gay, was received with glad cries, and these still reverberated when his short story collection, A Model World, appeared. And then? Hmmm, let's see. The white whale's been done. Down the Mississippi on a raft? That too. Okay, lots of plots out there; maybe something about a dwarf in Germany who beats a drum...
...says that Harvard hockey is cursed at the Yale Whale...