Word: bluefish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illnesses from eating contaminated fish -- including gastroenteritis, hepatitis A and cholera -- is rising around the U.S. Pesticide residues and other chemicals so taint New York marine waters that state officials have warned women of childbearing age and children under 15 against consuming more than half a pound of bluefish a week; they should never eat striped bass caught off Long Island. Says Mike Deland, New England regional administrator for the EPA: "Anyone who eats the liver from a lobster taken from an urban area is living dangerously...
...human mind to absorb, assimilate and assort all these phenomena. "Odd that a thing is most itself when likened," writes Wilbur, extolling the ability of language, metaphors, similes to capture the spectacle of reality. Even then, abstractions can be unsettled by the tug of the here and now. A bluefish swims beneath...
Despite its name, Friday Saturday Sunday, another '70s winner, serves dinner all week in a jaunty storefront setting. The savory smoked bluefish with horseradish-flecked whipped cream proved a better starter than a Sichuan beef salad that had a caustic dressing. Duck with a sweet-and-pungent curry sauce was as delectable as the Cornish hen Normandy, stuffed with apples and walnuts...
...ichthyological achievement of Blues should not be minimized. John Hersey, previously noted for elaborations of such historic themes as World War II (A Bell for Adano), the Holocaust (The Wall) and the atom bomb (Hiroshima), has chosen the dialogue form for what seems a lighter topic: the pursuit of bluefish off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But as the book's insatiably curious Stranger talks informally with the knowledgeable Fisherman, a cascade of lore and documents, poetry and tragedy is netted along with the glistening quarry...
Recently in an attempt to create more office space in one of Harvard's buildings, a room was redesigned with a mezzanine level. Within a short period of time the walls of the newly constructed space began to ooze with bluefish-white mold Enter Lynn A. Harding, a Biohazards safety officer with EHS, who diagnosed and solved the problem. Through a series of humidity tests, Harding discovered that the new mezzanine level "stratified the room," allowing air contaminants to thrive. She set up a program to lower the humidity of the upper level and thus eradicate the mold...