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WRITING HIS NATURAL HISTORY IN THE FIRST CENTURY A.D., Pliny the Elder reported that when water rises into the atmosphere to form rain clouds, it sucks up with it shoals of fish and sometimes quantities of stones. Fish and stones hover above us in the sky. Elsewhere, Pliny offered an item about a woman who gave birth to an elephant. He was, occasionally, a supermarket-tabloid sort of Roman...
...lists chicken, fish, frozen yogurt, low-calorie salad dressings and broth-based soups among healthier alternatives that should be offered in cafeterias...
...that Cleveland Mayor Michael White was pleading with N.F.L. owners not to let owner Art Modell move the Browns to Baltimore, Shula let it be known that he was resigning as coach of the Dolphins. Thirty-three years as an N.F.L. head coach, 26 years as the Big Fish in Miami, a record 347 victories, six Super Bowls and the only undefeated season in league history didn't seem to count when journalists, fans, callers to South Florida radio stations and, most important, the owner, H. Wayne Huizenga, asked, "What have you done for me lately...
Passarella is the fifth member of the 1995-96 Harvard men's tennis team to win the award, joining an illustrious group that includes Coach Dave Fish...
...with his Fish, 1930: a 6-ft. blade of mottled, blue-gray marble, which floats above a circular "pond" of creamy limestone. It resembles a large weather vane, and, in fact, it is mounted on hidden ball bearings, so that it can turn. The form of the blade is very pure and yet somehow indeterminate; it has no trace of fins, gills or other fishy attributes. It is more like the shadow of a fish in perfectly clear water, a gray flicker cast on the riverbed below, whose pebbles are suggested by the white streaks and mottling within the stone...