Greetings from Hot, humid, DC.

Current New Yorker (July 15, 2002) has Briefly Noted on Eye of the Albatross,
a new book by Carl Safina (Holt; $27.50) A portion of the review "The
heroine of this powerful tale of marine life in the Pacific is Amelia, a
Laysan Albatross who was tagged with a satellite transmittor so that
biologists couild track her movements. Safina, author of the memorable "Song
for the Blue Ocean" offers up a remarbable portrait of Amelia as she slides
thousands of miles, journeying from tropical waters to sub-Artic seas,
spending almost all of her life in the air. And he describes with equal
vividness the ocean across which she travels; fusing ecological history and
serious science to great effect, he whos how the delicate interplay between
human intervention and natural adaptations affects the lives of seals,
sharks, turtles, and seabirds."

Jim Rosso