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...their hunt for Nemo, they are aided and threatened by all manner of sea creatures: a menacing anglerfish, some not entirely trustworthy members of Sharks Anonymous, a school of shocking jellyfish and a family of surfer-dude sea turtles. In captivity, Nemo finds his own friends: Peach, the starfish (Allison Janney), and the tank commander Gill (Willem Dafoe), a tough who mutters, "Fish ain't meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hook, Line and Thinker | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...have anticipated. And not just because he died five years before Watson and Crick discovered DNA?s double helix (when his car was hit by a produce-laden freight train). Doc was an old-fashioned sort of biologist who combed tide pools for the invertebrates he loved - mollusks, anemones, starfish - and studied their gross features and quirky behavior (and supported himself by supplying biological specimens and slides to schools and research institutions from his rickety lab along Cannery Row). He did not even think about the molecules that made them tick. But he did have a lively, open mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghost of Old Doc Ricketts | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

...containing some not-so-secret ingredients: whole pickled cobras, monkey parts or any other animal that will fit in a jar. Each variety is said to have specific medicinal powers. Gecko is purported to be a natural antibiotic. Black crow supposedly cures backaches. Aphrodisiac versions come with goat testicles, starfish and sea horse. Then there's the secret herbal recipe with a name that conveys a sense of its rare erotic promise: Nhat Da Ngu Giao, or One Night, Five Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...Morning Starfish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Could Have Been | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

Late last Monday, Lieut. Colonel Yossi Mor peered through the 3-in.-thick bulletproof glass on the guard tower at Rachel's Tomb. The Jewish holy site had been under fire from three sides for four hours. Bullets slammed into the glass, bludgeoning it with starfish cracks, like ice on a pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fields Of Fire | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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