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...tandem creative." Two graduate students, positioned at opposite ends of the 50-ft. tank, throw full body and soul into communicating this message to the animals, Phoenix and Akeakamai. First the humans ask the dolphins to pay attention by holding a finger high in the air. Then they tap the index fingers of each hand together, forming the gesture that has been taught to mean tandem. Next they throw their arms up in an expansive gesture that signifies creative. The dolphins have just been told, "Do something creative together...
...water Cantabrigians see when they turn on their tap travels a long way before reaching their homes and businesses, says Nancy E. Barnes, director of the Cambridge water department...
...manager of Pizzeria Uno says the restaurant began purchasing bottled water after receiving many complaints about the tap water...
Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories fits into the first category. Appealing to a broad, mainstream audience, it represents one of the first endeavors by a major publishing house to tap into this tradition. It includes the most renowned naturalized or U.S. born Latino writers and some alluring tales, but ultimately only leaves the reader with a hunger for more--it's like being taunted by the smells of Hispanic cooking at a food fest without getting to sit down and enjoy a full satisfying meal...
...servant to be granted a state funeral, at which he was eulogized by Richard Nixon in the Rotunda of the Capitol as "one of the giants . . . a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity." But the year before, bedeviled by fallout from his efforts to tap the phones of journalists, the President had confided to John Ehrlichman, "We may have on our hands here a man who will pull the temple down with him, including me." It is not surprising that not one of the eight Presidents he served dared fire...