Any life on them would probably be aquatic, she said, but "it might even be cooler life than we have here.
Then, on a Brooklyn rooftop, where a friend was showing the film "The Life Aquatic," she met Eric Majorelle, an entrepreneur who was born in Manhattan and raised in Paris (and whose family created the famous Majorelle Garden in Marrakesh).
If she truly wants to encourage better utilization of the aquatic center, she should stop talking about scuttling the building.
BELIZE CITY, Belize — Among conservation biologists, Rachel Graham is sometimes called the aquatic Jane Goodall: She has developed new information about the lives of her research subjects and, like the famous primatologist, she has successfully deployed science to create a constituency for their preservation.
At one point, she says she thinks of all men who look at the sea as Ulysses (she's an aquatic soul), but she's every bit the wanderer.
Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid, who recently complained about not being given a single ticket to watch the Olympic swimming in the Aquatics Centre she designed, will be able to content herself with a day out at the Palace.
She chose aquatic motifs for Steuben, she said, partly because the globules formed during glassblowing remind her of water foaming and bubbling.
"It's all about bringing people and the aquatic environment together," she said.
Now, a few months later, the fish serve as her shimmering aquatic chorus as she flips and glides through the warm waters they share.
In rewriting her material for The Aquatic Ape (1982), she stripped her prose of wit and added diagrams and new data, effectively refashioning the text into a more canonical form of scientific publication.
The remarks attributed to the Nassau parks commissioner, Doreen Banks, in your recent article ["Nassau Pool: Albatross or Olympic Opportunity?" Dec. 1] demonstrate the same unexplainable bias against the Nassau County Aquatic Center that she exhibited when I attended a budget hearing a couple of months ago.
