Word: fish
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...country's need as well as its plenty. It was served on a table covered by a red checked tablecloth "with so many holes in it that it must have been riddled by a shotgun." But no one needed to go away hungry from the meal-bamboo sprouts, fish, large bowls of glutinous rice, tiny cubes of dried smoked water buffalo, eggs fried with garlic, cucumbers, oranges and pineapple. After flying low across the embattled countryside with Kong Le, McCulloch wrote: "Laos is one of the loveliest lands on earth, and it is a bitter travesty that such...
...public that is ready to pay $1,000 to $3,500 for his floating sculpture. In his obsession with simplicity and freedom of form, he argues that his shapes "derive from Brancusi. If he were alive today, he would have released his Bird in Space and freed the Fish to swim. He simply lacked the technology that we have today. His work implies flight." Collie promises to fly even higher in his next show: no strings...
...Theory. The PHS withdrew its claims about the menhaden, which left about 175,000 fresh-water fish believed to have died of endrin. But how did the poison get into the fish while the water in which they lived was essentially free of endrin? The PHS believes fish gradually concentrate the insecticide, which lodges in their fat. When the fish consume their fat in time of food scarcity, enough endrin is released into their blood to kill them...
...amount of endrin get into the Mississippi in the first place? For a while, PHS blamed the Velsicol Chemical Corp., which manufactures endrin at Memphis. But the company had a ready reply. "If our endrin got into the river," asked a Velsicol official, "why weren't thousands of fish killed around our plant, instead of 770 miles downstream?" PHS answered that the doomed catfish probably got poisoned near Memphis and swam to the river's mouth before they died-a theory that hardly accounts for the fact that the catfish analyzed are not migratory species...
Another fishkill in Missouri last month only added to the confusion. Once more PHS was quick to blame insecticides; once more the evidence did not confirm the charge. Only a few fish died, and no poison has been found in them. Suffocation is the more likely cause of death since decomposing raw sewage dumped into the river at Kansas City had used up an inordinate amount of the Missouri's oxygen. Future kills may yet be traced to insecticides, some of which are toxic to fish in amounts that are harmless to humans. If so, Government authorities...