Who Killed the Sea Lions?
• ENVIRONMENT A Struggle for the Sea Turtles Jerry Adler 11/20/2007 12:00:00 AM They are among the most beloved and pampered of wild reptiles, transcending ugliness by sheer indomitability. For hundreds of millions of years turtles have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings down to the water’s edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and waddle in the direction of a motel parking lot instead. A formidable, if metaphorical, wall of bureaucracy has been erected to protect their prime nesting sites on the Atlantic coastlines of Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. With all that attention lavished on them, you’d think the darn creatures would at least have the gratitude not to go extinct. • BEAUTY Talk About a Golden Glow The gold standard in skin care these days isn’t a metaphor; it’s a facial made of
