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...Aswan* will turn out enough to make the country self-sufficient. The loss of the sardine industry, they say, is more than counterbalanced by the new fishing industry on Lake Nasser, which covers 2,000 square miles behind the dam. Fishermen are now taking river bass, Nile catfish and carp from the lake, and government experts estimate that annual catches will eventually rise to as high as 60,000 tons. Coastal erosion, Aswan defenders say, is not so much a product of the loss of silt as it is a result of changing wave patterns in the Mediterranean...
...starling is not the only alien species that plagues the nation. There are European pigeons, which spread a form of meningitis and defile monuments and building ledges and the German carp, a "wonderfish" imported in the 1870s, which has displaced native game fish from lakes and rivers by eating their food and their spawn. New threats come from the exotic species that escaped from rare-animal or fish farms: the ill-tempered Asian walking catfish, the South American piranha and India's citrus fruit-eating red-whiskered bulbul -to mention just a few. They prove over and over again...
Purists and adulators of Judy Garland may carp, and one can understand why, but this all-black musical version of The Wizard of Oz is a carnival of fun. It grins from the soul, sizzles with vitality, and flaunts the gaudy hues of an exploding rainbow...
...come off the shells with gasoline. But it's hard to tell which was worse, the water or the people walking along side. A thin breakwall separated the canal from the river and Lake Erie, and oftentimes, fishermen would cast a line into the canal, although only disease-ridden carp could still live in it. Once, during a race, a fisherman cast his line clear over a boat and while he was still within shouting distance the air was full of invectives between the coxswain and the fisherman. In another race an oarsman was hit in the forehead...
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, and thus do we .. .by indirections find directions...