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...decomposes anaerobically before being sprayed onto fields. Those fields, the lawsuits charge, can't absorb the untreated waste - an alleged "witch's brew of nearly 400 volatile organic compounds and toxic poisons" - fast enough. Some of it rains down or seeps into waterways, where it causes algal blooms, fish kills and shellfish diseases, according to the suit...
...Certainly accidents happen, and things get ugly: In June 1995, 22 million gallons of hog waste spilled into tributaries leading to the New River, killing thousands of fish. And when Hurricane Floyd hit in 1999, waste from pits and lagoons was pumped into fields, which then flooded into the Tar, Neuse and Cape Fear tributaries...
After Kikujiru, a wan comedy in which the Kitano gruff guy serves as a young boy's nanny, he has returned to the crime genre with Brother. Shot in Tokyo and Los Angeles, this is a hyper-violent action movie with the standard fish-out-of-water plot?only this fish is a tiger shark. A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug. Aniki, as everyone calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead...
...Jerri and Colby and Amber caught a bunch of fish, hand over fist, and Keith - a chef again, much to his bemusement - filleted and fried up the suckers while everybody went to school on him. But the grub, apparently, was delightful...
...producers of "Big Brother" desperately changed the rules of the game on the fly to revive its ratings.) Last year, Richard Hatch, an experienced diver, increased his chances of winning (as he eventually did) when his tribe won a set of snorkeling gear, which allowed him to catch fish for his hungry victims. Do his opponents have a case against the producers for offering a prize that played to his strengths? Would he have had a case if his team had won a case of tuna fish and a can opener instead? There is vote-rigging, and there are entirely...