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Away from the office, he pours his energy into diverse interests: fishing, tennis, listening to country-music favorites like Dolly Parton and Crystal Gayle, replanting his blueberry bushes. At Kennebunkport, Me., where the Bushes own a sprawling seafront house, the Vice President spends hours at the wheel of his 28...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Real George Bush? | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

The Spawning Run, though ostensibly about salmon fishing, is actually an essay on the ancient sport of cuckoldry. Vacationing in Britain, the narrator and his wife put up at a fusty old angling hotel in Wales. Every morning a Wodehouse-load of stuffed shirts set off to the salmon water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Bird Open Season | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Scrod is a catch-all term for any fish fillet that becomes white when cooked. It usually refers to cod or haddock, but on good fishing days can denote halibut and other flakier varieties. Lemon juice that has been dried (dehydrated), and then moistened again is said to have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Although no one was hurt, last week's raid was one of the most dramatic attacks on the whaling industry in years. In one sweep it devastated Icelandic whalers and focused attention on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a militant international environmental group headed by Renegade Paul Watson, a Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

The port call was a symbolic victory for Washington in the diplomatic war of nerves now emerging in the Pacific between the superpowers. The contest began in earnest 15 months ago, when Moscow secured fishing rights to the tuna-rich waters of Kiribati, a tiny 33-island former British colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Pacific Overtures | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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