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...unlikely, uneasy army of scientists, whale-hunting Eskimos, oil company officials and environmental activists mustered in frigid Point Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost point in the United States, to organize a $1 million rescue effort. Biologists nicknamed the trio of young whales Bonnet, Crossbeak and Bone. By week's end the whales had competing Eskimo names -- Putu, Siku and Kanik, or Ice Hole, Ice and Snowflake. They also had the good wishes of President Reagan, who called to tell rescue workers that our "hearts are with you and our prayers are also with you." The media frenzy prompted a bewildered...
During the first scrimmage this year, a player suffered a broken collar bone. "It's not a sport to be taken lightly," Wentzell added...
...paintings of nudes that he made, at the height of his powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...
...swim here, and just last week, there was a physican talking about the different bone structure of Blacks," McCluskey says with irony...
...songs and donning and doffing their sun caps in time to a melody that crackles out of a tiny cassette recorder. Nobody is enjoying the field-hockey game as much as they are the bright afternoon. "They don't really know very much about the game," notes Arpad von Bone, a Dutch trainer intensely scrutinizing penalty corners. "But they have a delegation of children here to raise flags for every country. For Holland, they even had tulips! It's fantastic!" True amateurs...