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...Boston's Commonwealth Fish and Beer Co., Bush for President posters and multicolored banners lined the walls as more than 200 Bush devotees celebrated their candidate's landslide victories elsewhere...
...knows what ripple effects might occur if the new supersalmon escaped into the wild. One of the few studies done by U.S. researchers found a lower survival rate for eggs produced by transgenic fish. Still other studies show that despite their name, so-called superfish have diminished muscle structure and swimming performance. Says Canadian fish geneticist Robert Devlin: "Science, at the moment, is unable to give us a reliable assessment of risk...
Entis and others reply that whatever the risk, it could be lowered to almost zero by raising the fish in closed tanks rather than in storm-exposed pens. Still another tactic under consideration is shocking the fertilized eggs so they create fish that cannot reproduce--a marine equivalent of the self-destructing terminator gene that Monsanto once considered putting in its patented plant seeds...
...count on putting supersalmon lox on your Sunday-morning bagel anytime soon. The Food and Drug Administration must first approve introduction of the fish into the U.S., something that probably won't happen before...
...what have you got for us? It's the question D.A.s always throw back at criminals looking to save their own hides. O.K., then, what bigger fish are you going to help us fry? In this case the perp, Rafael Perez, was a Los Angeles cop accused of stealing 6 lbs. of cocaine from downtown headquarters to sell on the street. If Perez wanted to plea bargain that, he'd better offer something pretty good...