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...tour of the exhibits ends in a glass pavilion looking out on the Boston Harbor, Suddenly, everything became clear. There, in the distance, were the buildings of downtown, and I felt, if just for a second, that I did indeed go to school in Boston. I watched planes fly into Logan over the harbor, and I remembered when I arrived here on my flight freshman year, looking down at the harbor and thinking what a great city I was going to be living...
...have long speculated that if there are other warm, wet and cozy planets like ours, they might harbor carbon-based life like ours. Unfortunately, the vast majority of places out there are depressingly and forbiddingly unearthlike. We figured that life there, if at all possible, would probably come in highly exotic forms based on completely different chemistries from ours (silicon, for example). And yet here in front of our noses are deep-sea, carbon-based microbes able to live in hellish, almost Venus-like conditions. If here, why not out there...
...what's the deal with the fish? As if Thursday night's Mohongahela Grouper wasn't poisonous eough, last night we were subjected to Tough Love Halibut and next week surely promises a round of Slappy Salsa Snapper. Is Harvard Dining Services fishing in Boston Harbor? Enough is enough. If they've got to have fresh catch, put a hook through the eye of a chicken. Quit it with the fish...
Across the globe, from the Gulf of Mexico to the South China Sea, people are killing coral reefs. Cyanide fishing, harbor dredging, coral mining, deforestation, coastal development, agricultural runoff, shipwrecks and careless divers are putting so much pressure on these extraordinary ecosystems that they may not survive beyond the next century. "You can never point to one thing and say it's this that's killing the reefs," Wilkinson observes, "because in reality it's almost everything...
Coral reefs are more than beautiful structures admired by snorkelers and scuba divers. Their stony ramparts serve as storm barriers that protect shorelines and provide ships with safe harbor. Their nooks and crannies accommodate fish and shellfish that are important sources of food and livelihood for millions of people. And like the tropical forests to which they are frequently compared, reefs are repositories of vast biological wealth as yet untapped for medicinal and industrial uses...