European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Jm1v-r a a of a school of curious fish comes face to face with a group of fascinated students in Seattle. The age of aquariums has arrived by Jeff Barnard the associated press from blighted East coast waterfronts to the Salmon starved coast of Oregon a new Breed of Marine museums mixing family entertainment with environmental education is becoming an Anchor for economic development. Quot people Don t go Bowling. They like to go to aquariums these Days Quot said Jim Peterson president of bios inc. In Seattle which designs museum exhibits. Aquariums opened last year in Chattanooga Tenn. Corpus Christi Texas Camden . And Newport Ore. The $14.5 million Oregon coast aquarium is the latest to fill its fish tanks turn on its wave machines and watch the River of people flow in. Within the last two years the National aquarium in Baltimore built a Dolphin Pavilion and the venerable John g. Shedd aquarium in Chicago doubled its size. The landmark Monterey Bay aquarium is planning a $60 million expansion. New aquariums Are planned in Tampa Fla. Cleveland Ohio and Charleston , others Are being considered in Duluth minn., and Buffalo . Quot anywhere you can give people a lot of fun in a family context provide a colourful entertainment experience along with a Little education its something to think about if you Are one of the town fathers Quot said Harrison Price of Torrance calif., who does feasibility studies for museums and theme Parks. They come because their interest in the Marine environment has been piqued by Jacques Cousteau to specials and they want to see fish up close and in something resembling their natural habitat. They come because new technology lets aquariums be More like Disneyland and less like Davy Jones locker. But environmentalism and entertainment have not been first and Foremost in the minds of Many aquarium advocates. These civic officials see tanks and fish As building blocks for Urban renewal. It All started in 1981 with the National aquarium in Baltimore the Centrepiece of redevelopment of the blighted waterfront. Quot the extraordinary Success of Baltimore was the trigger Quot setting off an aquarium Boom that is comparable to the growth of theme Parks triggered by Disneyland according to Price. In Newport the idea was to boost tourism after environmental constraints depressed logging and Salmon fishing went into decline. New Jersey s poorest City Camden turned to a $52 million aquarium after watching its Industrial base ebb after world War i. The nation s first major Freshwater aquarium in Chattanooga Tenn., is a $45 million Keystone to a revitalized Tennessee River front. And if you build an aquarium they will come. The 2-year-old aquarium of the americas in new Orleans pulled in 2.2 million people last year Price said and together the top nine aquariums Drew 9 million. The lure of the sea is even stronger in Japan where the new aquarium in Osaka pulled in 5.5 million Quot those Are Damn near Disney style numbers Quot said Price. Showman , Barnum recognized people s fascination with creatures of the deep when he opened one of the nation s first aquariums in 1861, said Leighton Taylor author of the upcoming Book on aquariums windows on nature. Quot there is something like a sense of communion the Church kind of Union when people make Eye Contact with an animal even if it is an octopus or a sea Urchin Quot he said. The new aquariums which stress natural looking environments and interaction with visitors serve As an escape from the despoiled Earth and a reminder of it Quot the new kind of aquarium. Admits that the reason we have aquariums is not to celebrate human domination of nature but recognizes that we All have to learn about it to respect it and save it Quot said  their tears from wire reports do other mammals shed tears when Walling the Way humans do zoo authorities say that they have not observed any overwrought orangutans shedding tears. Quot i Don t know of any animals other than humans that produce tears in emotional contexts Quot said Fred Koontz curator of mammals at the new York zoological Garden. Quot they certainly produce tears but from physical irritants rather than emotional  Carmi Penny curator of mammals at the san Diego zoo also said he did not know of any animals that shed tears of emotion. Quot most animals with eyes will produce tears Quot he said Quot but for maintenance and Protection of the  Dinosaur found researchers have assembled an almost Complete Skeleton of a 400-Pound reptile that ran on its Hind legs ripped prey a firt with jaws and claws and probably was the ancestor of tyrannosaurus Rex the largest meat. Eater to walk the Earth University of Chicago Pale oncologist Paul Sereno said Skeleton parts found in Argentina show that a 230-Milllon-year-old carnivore called hearer saurus is the earliest know meat eater in the Dinosaur  for Andes the appalachian mountains May have been part of a Mountain Chain that stretched to Antarctica and included the forerunner of the Andes in South America geologists say. An aberrant chunk of Limestone in the argentinian Andes a Long known to contain fossils More typical of North America a is the key piece of evidence for the theory said Ian . Dalziel a geologist at the University of Texas at Austin Quot everyone knew it was there but no one tried to explain it Quot he told the Winston Salem journal in a recent interview Dalziel and three geologists in Argentina offer a new View of the Young Earth. Their theory suggests that the ancestral or Taconic appalachians were thrust up when Eastern North America collided with the West coast of South America about 460 million years ago. When the two continents drifted apart 200 million years later the Early appalachians were split. Tuesday january 19, 1993 a the stars and stripes