Word: fish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignored physical dependence on the biosphere -earth's thin envelope of air, water and soil in which life exists. Almost every week now brings new warnings of impending ecological upsets within our planet's infinitely interdependent chain of life processes: certain birds becoming extinct, hauls of inedible fish, mysterious animal sickness. Environment will tackle, for example, the effects of such forms of pollution as DDT pesticides and radioactive waste, chemical fertilizers and hot water from nuclear power reactors; it will explore the cacophony of modern noises that grate on the nerves and damage living organisms; it will contemplate...
...Detroit, Cleveland and 120 other municipalities fill Erie with 1.5 billion gallons of inadequately treated wastes, including nitrates and phosphates. These chemicals act as fertilizer for growths of algae that suck oxygen from the lower depths and rise to the surface as odoriferous green scum. Commercial and game fish-blue pike, whitefish, sturgeon, northern pike-have nearly vanished, yielding the waters to trash fish that need less oxygen. Weeds proliferate, turning water frontage into swamp. In short, Lake Erie is in danger of dying by suffocation...
...correct citizen. The Jewess of the title is a country widow whose son Boris, a Bolshevik official, resettles her in a Moscow apartment. He turns the apartment into a club for his comrades, and soon Moscow Cooperative Society sausage is replaced by the old lady's gefilte fish. The story ends abruptly with a neighbor's complaint about the smell of boiled fish throughout the building. The last lines hint at ethnic and possibly political troubles in the making...
...Astronaut James Lovell. "Now we're looking at what we call Boot Hill. On the right is the crater Censorinus P." The spacecraft passed over Sidewinder and Diamondback, two of the sinuous rills that had caused Apollo 10 Astronaut John Young to wonder "if some time long ago fish hadn't been jumping in those creeks." Commented Collins: "It looks like a couple of snakes down there in the lake...
...submerged car was spotted eight hours later by two boys who were looking for a place to fish. The mother of one of the boys called Edgartown Police Chief Dominick Arena. After trying unsuccessfully to break into the car, Arena summoned the fire department's scuba-diver team, which managed to extricate Miss Kopechne's body. Meanwhile, Arena traced the car's license plates to Kennedy. At approximately 8:30 a.m., the Senator showed up at police headquarters accompanied by counsel, former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Paul Markham, and Ted's cousin Joseph Gargan...