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...Whoa. Kill members of one protected species to save three of another? What was going on here? In his nightly commentary, NBC's John Chancellor singled out the sound of the whales' labored breathing, a reminder of another mammal's desperate urge to live, as the signal that triggered the national flood of empathy. But there was something more at work. Once the whales entered America's living rooms, they became, in effect, giant pets. Nicknamed, anthropomorphized and even serenaded by guitars, the whales prompted straight- faced comparisons with last year's dramatic rescue of Jessica McClure from a Texas...
...whoa Nellie, oh my. What a dandy of a game--a hoss from the streets of Rio, steals the ball at midfield. Maradona, Maradona, Maradona, Fumble!!!! Whoops, GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! Oh, my, whoa Nellie...
...that quick, sharp and scary. Scares Williams too. "When it works," says the Chicago-born comic, 36, "it's like . . . freedom! Suddenly these things are coming out of you. You're in control, but you're not. The characters are coming through you. Even I'm going, 'Whoa!' It's that Zen lock. It's channeling with Call Waiting...
...earn demerits for a boy scout seems fair game. But is that fair? Last week this trend was prompting some healthy reappraisal that might save campaign '88 from runaway triviality. As James Gannon, editor of the Des Moines Register, puts it: "A lot of respected journalistic guts are saying 'Whoa...
...Whoa. This is a hominid," crowed Anthropologist Tim White when he spotted the first bone fragment, a portion of an elbow, lying on a layer of sand. Looking down, Expedition Leader Donald Johanson shouted, "There's part of a humerus right next to it!" That July 1986 find in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge marked the beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis...