studies emerged from the medical tradition, the careful observation of the human body and its actions. The British surgeon Thomas Beale published his ground-breaking _The Natural History of the Sperm Whale_ in 1835;it was the first full description of the sperm whale, which until that time was little understood beyond the gunwales of a whaleboat or the blubber room of a whale-ship.

Frontispiece to Thomas Beale's _Natural History of the Sperm Whale_ (1839). |

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Charles Scammon was a successful nineteenth-century whaling captain on the west coast of North America. Although he published only one book and one technical paper, he would come to have influence on the field of cetology. Along with _Moby-Dick_ , Scammon's _The Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America, Together with an Account ofMore parents plead guilty in US college admissions scandal

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Boston — One father conspired to pay bribes to get two children admitted to the University of Southern California — one as a recruit in soccer, the other in football. A couple plotted to cheat on college entrance exams for their two daughters. A mother worried that her daughter might figure out that she was trying to get her a fake ACT score, saying, on a call that turned out to be recorded by authorities, “She already thinks I’m up to, like, no good.” Four parents — including the former head of one of the world’s biggest asset managers and an heir to a fortune created by microwaveable snacks — pleaded