Word: fish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changed the image of the prehistoric North Americans who lived in the area. Contrary to the accepted view, Struever says, these Stone Age people apparently led a rather idyllic life. Food was plentiful in the lush valley, allowing them to feast on nuts and wild grains, ducks, mollusks and fish. One cooking pit, for example, contained some 22,000 fish bones of all sizes, down to skeletons of 1-in.-long minnows; apparently they were all cooked together in a giant prehistoric bouillabaisse...
Specific projects already underway: high density fish culture to provide local protein from basement-sized 'fish factories,' hydroponic, high yield rooftop gardens for vegetables, solar power devices, wind power tests, non-wasting waste disposal and utilization, junk reclamation and distribution, and community, co-operative production and transportation...
...relationships to man, may not be a household word, but its flashier discoveries, like male bonding and territoriality, have become common currency. Ethology did not begin with best-selling grandiose comparisons between the habits of men and apes. It started with years of painstaking observation of bees, fish and birds by the three prizewinners. It stems from the once unthinkable idea that men and beasts are species in the same animal kingdom and have comparable patterns of behavior...
...employees in Peacock's cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...
...women seem somewhat fatalistic about their job security. "You've just to keep workin' and hope there's gonna be enough fish," says one woman shovelling an armful of sardines from the conveyer belt. "And it's awfully nice that young Congressman wanted to come through and talk to us. Maybe he can do something about it for us down in Washington...