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...that consumption of a single meal of these fish will expose the fetus to a potentially hazardous amount" of mercury. The report goes on to list "safe" fish, including farm-raised trout, farm-raised catfish, shrimp, fish sticks, summer flounder, wild Pacific salmon, croaker, mid-Atlantic blue crab and haddock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There's Something Fishy About These Dietary Guidelines | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...lounge's VIP room earlier. Soon he hoped to make good on his promise to get rid of corruption at the local jail and maybe someday--if he had as much energy as he did ambition--reform the nation's prison systems. The cafe's chef had made crab-stuffed chicken especially for Brown, who spent the evening shaking hands, swapping stories and holding court. With a glass of Hennessy, he was sitting in a booth with the female volunteer from his election campaign in the leopard-print pants when the band's lead singer picked the couple out from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: Who Shot The Sheriff? | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...work. The standard little girl wearing make-up, complete with dyed hair and a bikini, is by now tired and almost traditional. Lee presents nothing new; in fact, her contorted fruit photographs aren't even grotesque, but simply run-of-the-mill. She wishes for a contorted crab apple to signify the state of humanity in the modern world, beauty destroyed by convention and expectation. Such a perspective, unfortunately, has been taken a few too many times already, and Lee adds nothing to this overplayed theme...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: State of the Art? | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...crab and crouch in the brush, low to the ground in the woods of Michigan. Deep, deep in the woods. Patient, silent, dressed as trees, we stalk our prey. Not the mighty bear or the trophy buck but an animal far more dangerous, and dumber than a bucket of rocks. The poacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bambi's Got A Little Secret | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Through repeated design "generations" that the researchers likened to Darwinian evolution, their computer sought the "fittest" offspring--ones that could crawl the farthest in a given time. One creation shuffled along like a crab. Another left markings in the sand with its snakelike contractions. The best design turned out to be a pyramidal-shaped creature that pushed itself along with a shovel-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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