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...were making a comeback until they started mysteriously dying off. State wildlife officials recovered a record 281 dead otters last year, and this year looks to be even worse. Five or six wash up on California's beaches and rocks each week. In August alone, 28 dead otters were cast ashore, including an alarming number of full-grown females. "When we start losing breeding females," says veterinarian Mike Murray at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, "that's not a healthy population...
...taken Harvard to task, too, notably during the “living-wage” campaign in 2001. Democrats with national clout, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, supported the students who staged a three-week sit-in inside the University president’s office in Massachusetts Hall and cast Harvard as an epitome of capitalism’s social ills...
...addition to McDreamy, older women tune in to Grey's Anatomy for its rich cast of characters, riveting storylines and quirky medical cases (a writer who swallows his first novel, a pregnant cancer patient who rejects chemo in order to have a healthy baby, a woman "suffering" from uncontrollable orgasms). Unlike edgier high-concept hits such as 24 and Lost, Grey's harkens back to TV's conventional medical dramas, including St. Elsewhere and E.R. - topped with a hefty dose of sex to keep up with the times. At a time when TV is also overflowing with either unscripted reality...
...story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis. Paul Lai Longwood, Florida, U.S. Imperial Influence Re "Japan's mystery of majesty" [Sept. 4]: It is ridiculous to cast the Imperial Household Agency as a shadowy and mighty institution that...
...time Academy Award winner is undeniably mis-cast. When I do free association with Swank’s name “femme fatale with a bizarre English accent and a weird rat-like flower in her hair” is not one of the phrases that I generally come up with. She trills lines like “The family’s in Laguuuuuuna!” as if she is playing Katherine Hepburn in a drag show...