December 18, 1998

2 North Carolina Scholars Study Life and Death of Whales and Dolphins

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Blubber brought Ann Pabst and William McClellan together -- the kind found on whales, not at Weight Watchers.

Whale blubber -- which weighs 1,000 pounds per foot and doesn't smell all that great after baking for a few days on a beach -- doesn't seem like the stuff of romance. But Ms. Pabst and her partner, Mr. McClellan, marine mammalogists here at the University of North Carolina, are anything but your average academic couple. Their

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