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...Stehr first must produce some fish. He points out he's already proved doubters wrong by being the first to propagate yellowtail kingfish; he has about 5,000 tons of growing fish in offshore pens at Arno Bay. But tuna can be trickier to deal with. "You look at a fish wrong," he says, "and they keel over." Still, he has no doubt he'll succeed. "We have run the marathon," he says. "We're stepping into the stadium. Even if we fall now, we will crawl inch by inch...
...your intent with the picture accompanying "The Raw Deal" was to dissuade people from consuming raw milk, you probably succeeded [May 12]. The photo is a highly misleading illustration of the state of dairy facilities in this country. The lack of cleanliness is appalling. I find it amazing that your photographer couldn't find a more representative scene to shoot. Ray Mueller, CHILTON...
...offered to "put Burmese officials on our planes and ships" if they allowed U.S. forces to bring relief supplies into the country. But there's little chance a regime this insular and paranoid will let that happen. The trouble is, the Burmese lack the kinds of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale--and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that the disaster will degenerate beyond anyone's control. "A lot is at stake here," says Jan Egeland, the former U.N. emergency-relief coordinator. "If we let them get away with...
Even when the Giants do get prosaic, they do it their own way. Their recent CD and DVD hits--2005's Here Come the ABCs and 2008's Here Come the 123s--deal with stuff that could not be more basic, but they do so in a decidedly unbasic way. There aren't many musicians who teach the concept of the number seven with a song about a gang of sevens invading a home and demanding cake. Think that's too edgy for your kids? Show it to them once--and then see if you can pull them away...
...Stripes and Henry Rollins are lining up to be part of it. Pancake Mountain is available on several cable-access stations, the Internet and DVD, but so far, none of the networks has picked it up. Stuckey is in talks with a number of them, however, and optimistic a deal will come. No word yet on how the nets feel about the cereal thing...