The chain's 1,681 restaurants are nothing compared to true mega-chains, like McDonald's, which has more than 34,000 restaurants worldwide, or Starbucks and its 20,600-plus shops. Today, Chipotle has only 17 restaurants overseas, with plans to open more company-owned stores internationally in the coming year.
Whales & Whale Watching. Once hunted for oil and bone, today the whales of the northwest coast are recongnized as being unusually intelligent, gentle creatures. The most common whales you are likely to see in Alaska are orcas, or killer whales and humpbacks.
Orca is Latin for a kind of whale. Because wild killer whales are not a threat to humans, and the term killer has a derogatory tone, many people now refer to these whales as orcas, rather than killer whales. At least in the U.S., and even among whale researchers, killer whale still seems to be used more commonly, although I've used both terms in this article.