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very little. >> welcome back to the quiet store. as with anything in life, you have to know what you want before you get it. and it's the same deal with dating. i've always said that. >> a new survey from match.com reveals what many singles out there are looking for. so abc's linsey davis hit the streets to find out if that survey actually holds true. ♪ i won't dance >> i'm going to be the one guy on earth who knows what women want. >> you're welcome my little sweet buns. >> reporter: you might not have to be a mind reader like mel gibson to know what singles want in an i deal mate. a brand new survey from match.com shows what men and women find attractive in the opposite sex. attributes that surprised many of the singles we found honing and toning their bodies at new york sports club. are there certain body parts that you would be attracted to? >> i have to say eyes. >> probably the eyes. >> reporter: in the online and admittedly unscientific survey, eyes didn't score in the top ten things men or women judge the
♪ i'm going home to the place where i belong ♪ a 5-year-old russian girl is going home for the first time in her young life. her adoptive parents from arkansas are ready to bring her to the united states. but other couples have not been so lucky. >> here is one of the last adoptions that's being allowed. abc's kirit radia brings us is story from moscow. >> reporter: it's a reunion that almost didn't happen. kendra and jason skaggs arrived in moscow to pick up paulina, a 5-year-old orphan with spina bifida, now their adoptive daughter. >> it's a dream come true. >> it doesn't quite hit you yet that we have her and she's ours. >> reporter: paulina is one of the last russian children to be adopted by americans, barely escaping russia's new ban on adoptions to the united states. it went into effect on january 1st. part of russia's retaliation for a set of human rights sanctions passed by the u.s. last year. americans have adopted over 60,000 russian children since
to see why her work is so vital. >> reporter: she's out there somewhere. under there somewhere. a woman known as her deepness. and when one of the most respected ocean scientists alive arranges for an urgent meeting at the bottom of the caribbean, you go. to our interview spot 62 feet below the surface. for 20 years, the reef base known as aquarius has bubbled off the florida keys, housing scientists of every stripe. this one-of-a-kind place is endangered, doomed by the federal budget ax. here to try to save it is the former head of noaa, unofficial sturgeon general, sylvia earl. hello, sylvia. good to see you again. >> good to see you, too. >> reporter: thanks for having me in. she originally fell in love with ocean plant life, the microscopic algae responsible for every fifth breath you take.
there's a dallas-based p promotions company that is filing a lawsuit against armstrong. they want to recover $12 million they paid him in bonuses for winning the tour de france seven times. this man is being hit by all directions. some would say he went out there and asked for it with this oprah confession. >> but it had to be calculated. i mean, he has a team of lawyers and pr people. >> oh, he knew what he was doing. >> he had to know something was coming. maybe that was a way from a pr perspective to get a hand up on things. there's a reason he claim clean. it wasn't because he woke up that day and said, oh, i'll talk to oprah. >> i don't know that he expected all of this. >> i mean, legal, criminal, financial, it's a big hit. and that ban is from all competitive sports. >> he can never -- anything that is posted, he can never, ever compete in whatever that competition is. >> and the doping was bad. but with anything you do in life the lying makes it worse. >> the coverup and the lying. you've always said that.
>> a little. very little. >> welcome back to the quiet store. as with anything in life, you have to know what you want before you get it. and it's the same deal with dating. i've always said that. >> that's right. a new survey from match.com reveals what many singles out there are looking for. so abc's linsey davis hit the streets to find out if that survey actually holds true. ♪ i won't dance >> i'm going to be the one guy on earth who knows what women want. >> you're welcome, my little sweet buns. >> reporter: you might not have to be a mind reader like mel gibson to know what singles want in an ideal mate. a brand new survey from match.com shows what men and women find attractive in the opposite sex. attributes that surprised many of the singles we found honing and toning their bodies at new york sports club. are there certain body parts that you would be attracted to? >> i have to say eyes. >> probably the eyes. >> reporter: in the online and admittedly unscientific survey, eyes didn't score in the top ten things men or women judge the opposite sex on the most.
there's a dallas-based promotions company that is filing a lawsuit against armstrong. they want to recover $12 million they paid him in bonuses for winning the tour de france seven times. this man is being hit by all directions. some would say he went out there and asked for it with this oprah confession. >> but it had to be calculated. i mean, he has a team of lawyers and pr people. >> oh, he knew what he was doing. >> he had to know something was coming. maybe that was a way from a pr perspective to get a hand up on things. there's a reason he came clean when he did. it wasn't because he woke up that day and said, oh, i'll talk to oprah. >> i don't know that he expected all of this. >> i mean, legal, criminal, financial, it's a big hit. and that ban is from all competitive sports. not just cycling. >> he can never -- anything that is posted, he can never, ever compete in whatever that competition is. >> and the doping was bad. as always, with anything you do if life, the lying makes it worse. >> the coverup and the lying. you've always said that. now we're going to turn to an update on u.s. skier lindsey
but over the years, her wonder has been steadily replaced with worry. once vast pockets of thriving teeming life are getting increasingly hard to find. a warming planet is changing the acid levels in the sea, killing coral reefs, pesticides running down the mississippi and the deep water horizon disaster has stressed the gulf of mexico and she's determined to sound the alarm on the kind of rampart overfishing that's driven some piece is sis to the brink. >> the ecosystem is being destroyed. you can't imagine the farmer picking apples by lowering down the apple orchard. that's what we're doing in the ocean. >> reporter: she's concerned about the pesticides and mercury floating out here. one reason she says ocean study is more vital than ever. but research money is drying up. florida international university scraped together enough to save aquarius for now. but there are no long-term