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...bridge over a picturesque stretch of King's Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific," said Goodall, wearing rubber gloves as he sorted through the infected fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACRE ON THE BAY | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...King opposite Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance in 1981. Movie roles came just as quickly after he landed the highly coveted male lead in Sophie's Choice, opposite eventual Oscar winner Meryl Streep; in 1988 Kline won his own Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in A Fish Called Wanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CLOSET HAMLET | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...PISCES: Fish! I love to eat fish. I love to fish for fish. You will have an enjoyable fishing experience soon...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Guest Horoscope | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...explosion has brought a couple of horn-based groups to the forefront of the popular modern rock movement. Replete with animated lyrics and cheery melodies, Reel Big Fish revels in their own path to fame with "Sellout." The next time you hear this song, picture two cars swerving down a rural, gravel-paved road on a sunny day with hands swaying outside the driver's side windows. I know I will. Then there is the more serious but just as exciting "The Impression That I Get" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Although they are musically superior to Reel Big Fish...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pop Goes the Summer | 9/19/1997 | See Source »

...which meant that roughly 1 out of every 50 adult East Germans was linked to the secret police. As Garton Ash learned, they included professors and acquaintances as well as police pros. Evading Stasi's embrace was not easy, since informers were played by their agency controls "like a fish on a line." These spies, the author concludes, were motivated less by malice than by human weakness and by an "almost infinite capacity for self-deception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE PAST THROUGH A FILTER | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

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