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Let's leave Seattle's Little Orphan Orca alone.(The Seattle Times)
SEATTLE _ Maybe she just found a warm spot.
You know how it is: You're out swimming in a lake or bay, in typically organ-shrinking cold Northwest waters, when suddenly, out of the blue, you're enveloped by an inexplicably warm spot of water.
This, we're beginning to speculate, is what's keeping that little orca _ known alternately as Springer, Boo, and by her native name, Dances With Propellers _ tooling around in the shipping lanes between Vashon Island and Fauntleroy.
Alas, if we're right here _ and, really, how often have we ever been wrong? _ this warm-spot theory might actually be bad news for the whale. In an alarming example of revisionist history, a friend once informed us that some of the best "warm spots" we used to enjoy frolicking in along the shores of Hood Canal, for ...
- Large warm spot in the Pacific.
- Magazine article from: Science News October 10, 1987 700+ words
Large warm spot in the Pacific While conducting temperature and salinity measurements...summer of 1986, oceanographer Edward. T. Baker discovered an unusual warm spot in the ocean. The mere existence of this heated water 500 kilometers...
- WARM SPOT
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe December 25, 1988 700+ words
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- Warm spot. (The Products).(advertisement)
- Magazine article from: Professional Builder (1993) June 1, 2002 700+ words
Treat homeowners to warm plates in the kitchen or warm towels by the pool with the 24-inch indoor/outdoor warming oven by Dacor. It integrates into any indoor or outdoor application with custom-made wood panel cabinetry or a stainless steel panel. Temperature settings range from 100 to 200 degrees.
- Warm Spot For Florida: Large Group Of Huskies Right At Home.
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) October 7, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Shawn Courchesne Oct. 7--TAMPA, Fla. -- UConn's official homecoming game is Oct. 20 when West Virginia comes to Rentschler Field. But homecoming for a large portion of the UConn football roster comes today when the Huskies play South Florida at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. Fifteen UConn
- A warm spot for Wesley.(Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Borger, Gloria September 29, 2003 700+ words
The first public hint of the new Bill Clinton-Wesley Clark axis came a couple of weeks ago at cocktails at the Clintons' Chappaqua, N.Y., home. It was what the money guys call a "donor maintenance" event--something to keep wealthy Democratic contributors happy with that warm "in the loop" feeling
- Polian has a warm spot for WNY: Buffalo's best.
- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) August 18, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Jackie Friedman Aug. 18--Bill Polian has won a Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts, been named NFL Executive of the Year five times and developed the Carolina Panthers into the winningest expansion franchise in sports history. But memories of Buffalo wings and lake-effect snow still tug
- Family keeps a warm spot for freezing.(Business)(Pete Lafferty was cool, at...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) October 23, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard With a twist, Pete Lafferty has arrived at the same conclusion as the beloved Jimmy Stewart character George Bailey: It really is a wonderful life. Lafferty wasn't quite enthusiastic at first about following his father, Paul, into the family business. The elder
- REAS Foundation has warm spot in its heart for community seniors.
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) October 15, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Craig S. Semon STURBRIDGE - Fall has just started, but that doesn't mean the good people at the REAS Foundation aren't already preparing for new ways to fight the harshness of winter. Standing for Residential Energy Assistance for Seniors, the REAS Foundation was created last year by
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