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...reason governments have been slow to respond to the environmental crisis is that Earth is still churning out plenty of goods--enough fiber, grain and fish to support 6 billion people. Many are malnourished, of course, but that's primarily a matter of bad distribution. A closer look at the trends, though, is disturbing. PAGE points out that there is a difference between current production and capacity, which is the amount of grain or fish the globe can produce indefinitely. Fishing fleets, the report says, are 40% larger than the ocean can sustain. At that rate, more fisheries are bound...
...Harvard-Yale match is always a big match because it gives everyone a chance to compete," said Fish, referring to the match's unique format of playing exhibition matches in addition to the normal varsity games. "We came out ready to play and really went after them...
...wife Rosamund. Bellow readily acknowledges that this part of the novel was lifted pretty directly from his own life in 1994. "I was in St. Martin, and I went to a little French restaurant. I said, 'Do you have any local catch?' thinking that I'd outsmart the frozen-fish scene. But it didn't work, because it is the inland fish, the reef feeders, who get these poisons." Thanks to Freedman's quick thinking in an emergency, Bellow was flown back to Boston and landed in intensive care. Rumors at the time had him near death. "It took...
...good sources of vitamin C, look to citrus fruits, potatoes, strawberries, broccoli and leafy green vegetables. Vitamin E is tucked away in nuts, seeds, liver, leafy green vegetables and vegetable oils. You can get selenium from fish, meat, grains and--yes!--garlic. So before you reach into your medicine cabinet for another pill, glance down at your plate first. It probably contains all the antioxidants you need...
Aside from both being academics, Dolores and Jefferson Fish are opposites--and that's what they love about each other. Dolores is African American; Jeff is white. She's a loner; he's a mixer. She's nurturing; he's competitive. She's rational; he's emotional. As a cultural anthropologist she studies objects; as a psychologist he studies people. "We have zero overlap," says Jeff proudly. "Even after 30 years together, I am perpetually fascinated by Dolores." The feeling is mutual. "Jeff and I have many more interesting worlds to share with each other because we have those differences...