Word: apalachicola
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Amen to that. But now Georgia's politicians are fighting to protect their culture of consumption and development by suspending the Endangered Species Act, so that they won't have to send any water downstream to preserve endangered mussels in Florida's Apalachicola River. It's not a very holy attitude. Those mussels are God's creatures too--and so are the oystermen and fishermen who depend on the Apalachicola. Anyway, stiffing them won't save Atlanta. That's going to require serious water management and long-term thinking. In other words, a miracle...
SUSPENDED. RICK BRAGG, 43, Pulitzer prizewinning, Alabama-born reporter for the New York Times; after his editors discovered that he used uncredited material from a freelance reporter in a story about oystermen in Apalachicola, Fla.; reportedly for two weeks; in New York City. The move followed the resignation of another Times reporter, Jayson Blair, after the discovery of numerous mistakes and fabrications in his stories...