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Article: FYI; All wet.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- September 10, 1998
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Not to insinuate that the animal-rights movement has gone overboard or anything, but . . .
- Tapes of race-car engine sounds will be played inside the Long Beach Aquarium next year to condition the fish for noise from the California city's Grand Prix, which passes near the tanks.
- A crustacean beauty pageant was held in August in Ocean City, N.J., so that hermit crabs could compete for the title of Miss Crustacean 1998.
- A Canadian radio station has gone to an all-whale format. Orca-FM broadcasts the live grunts, groans and snores of killer whales off the coast of Newfoundland, as heard through a microphone dangling in the ocean.
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