Word: cod
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Pakulski, Matthew D. Harvard '94. Height: 5'7" Weight: 155 lbs. From Holworthy, Dunster, the Fat Day House in Somerville, and Cape Cod. Began college as a math major and ended up doing a special concentration--Music for Theater and Film. Likes hanging out with this year's freshmen because "they're not yet so poisoned by Harvard" Sweet, occasionally dorky, and oftentimes overtly obnoxious...
...There was a pattern of falsifications ofsecond mortgages," Richard V. Kelleher, who headsthe Dime Borrowers Association on Cape Cod, saidin an interview earlier this month. "The bank setup the whole scheme, but the bank walks offclean...
Richard V. Kelleher, a Dime borrower who heads the dime Borrowers Association on Cape Cod, said "the government singled out Bill Walsh...
...anymore. After providing nearly five centuries of uninterrupted bounty, the Grand Banks have suddenly run low on fish: northern cod populations have plummeted 95% in just a few years. Faced with the destruction of an irreplaceable resource, the Canadian government has done the unthinkable: prohibited all cod fishing indefinitely, and probably until the end of the century. Says Nurse, one of 27,000 fishermen thrown out of work by the ban: "Fishing is over for my lifetime. The question is, Will it ever come back...
That question is being asked all over the globe -- almost everywhere that fishermen ply the seas. Many of the most popular fish on the world's seafood menu are becoming harder and harder to catch as their populations collapse under the relentless assault of modern fishing fleets. Haddock, cod and flounder are so scarce off Cape Cod that a large part of America's oldest fishing area is now off limits. Populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna of breeding age have dropped 90% since 1975, and Pacific stocks are starting to fall as well. Orange roughy from the waters...