That was like a last gasp of summer, and I do mean gasp. Who expects temperatures above 90 in the middle of November? With any luck, some premature Christmas decorations melted. Personally, I loved it. Some warm-blooded folks wear shorts or T-shirts almost year-round, but that’s not me. If it’s below 75, I’m in long sleeves. Under 70 and I’m in a jacket. Anyone who thinks Southern California doesn’t have seasons hasn’t seen me in December and January: two layers, plus a coat, scarf, gloves, beanie. So the flood of warmth was entirely welcome from my end, especially since it’s unlikely to be repeated for months. I’d rather be hot than cold, and I’ve had plenty of experience with both in the...
That was like a last gasp of summer, and I do mean gasp. Who expects temperatures above 90 in the middle of November? With any luck, some premature Christmas decorations melted. Personally, I loved it. Some warm-blooded folks wear shorts or T-shirts almost year-round, but that’s not me. If it’s below 75, I’m in long sleeves. Under 70 and I’m in a jacket. Anyone who thinks Southern California doesn’t have seasons hasn’t seen me in December and January: two layers, plus a coat, scarf, gloves, beanie. So the flood of warmth was entirely welcome from my end, especially since it’s unlikely to be repeated for months. I’d rather be hot than cold, and I’ve had plenty of experience with both in the...
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From the "Fish from American Waters" series, for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands, 1889. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick. On my lunch breaks at the New York Aquarium, I went to the isolation tank. The sharks, rays, and turtles were fed at around noon every day, in a big gray box of a building that was closed to the public. I’d slurp down whatever I’d brought from home and run to the upper deck to sit on the outer edge of the pool, arriving with the other interns and the trainers, who toted metal buckets smelling of fish blood. The shark trainer lowered a pole speared with capelin into the...
The subject of the most important animal-rights case of the 21st century was born in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Very soon after that, a tousle-haired baby, she became trapped in human history. She was captured, locked in a cage, trucked to the coast, and loaded onto a roaring 747 that soared across the Pacific until it made landfall in the United States. She spent her earliest years in Florida, not far from Disney World, before she was shipped to Texas. In 1977, when she was 5 or 6, more men hauled her onto another truck and shipped her to New York, to a spot about four miles north of Yankee Stadium: the Bronx Zoo. In the wild, barely weaned,...
