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...when you have all that down, you think you'll be prepared, and that when the ball flies towards you, you'll be poised to reach out and snatch that lump of cowhide and stitches in one hand, casually, maybe then uncaringly toss it back like some undersized fish. But when it's never happened before, and Mercker's fastball to Berry is fouled off, and you have but a second to react, calculate and react again...you lunge, desperately, with both hands, and when you catch it you're quickly grateful not to have been cascaded with a chorus...
...shouldn't be dead," she says, sitting in her living room the day after his funeral. There is a white bucket in the corner with a live frog he caught a few weeks ago. "He liked to fish," she says. "People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me." She says she saw him regularly; he called her Reen instead of Mom, and, she admits, "he was always blaming me" for his problems. "They could have saved him and rehabilitated him," she insists. "When he started taking cars, they should have put him away then and given...
Suspicions about hormone disrupters were raised a few years ago by Theodora Colborn, a zoologist with the World Wildlife Fund who did a study on the reproductive health of Great Lakes wildlife in the late 1980s. Colborn discovered that the young of 16 predator species, including fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, were failing to survive to adulthood or could not reproduce if they did. All the animals ate fish from the Great Lakes, which were contaminated with a variety of hormone-like chemicals...
...this is a big but -- some species are more sensitive to dioxin than others. Just because rats and fish are affected in certain ways does not necessarily mean that humans will have comparable reactions. And doses that harm animals are not necessarily large enough to damage people. On the other hand, humans soak up many different chemicals, and the results may be cumulative...
...Fish. Some people have hailed this film as a serious, creative cinematic treatment of an important subject that deserves serious artistic consideration. I regard it as a inane, banal cinematic treatment of an important subject that deserves serious artistic consideration...