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After testing his weight, cooking expertise, luck and ability to tell `shit from shinollah,' Lampoon editors declared Cleese the winner. After besting his opponents, the star of A Fish Called Wanda raised his hands and flashed the victory sign...
...behind the sub or dangled in the water by a helicopter. The alternative is nonacoustic detection. For example, researchers are exploring ways of sensing a submarine's magnetic field, its thermal radiation or the turbulence in its wake. Some are even studying the bio- luminescence and the scattering of fish caused by a sub's passage. Another approach is radar imaging from orbiting satellites, which may be able to register the minute elevation of the ocean's surface resulting from a sub gliding beneath...
...first major exhibit of fish decoys opened last week at the Museum of American Folk Art in Manhattan. The decoys range from unadorned wooden designs to the elaborately painted "ghost fish" of Michigan carver Hans Janner Sr. "The most highly valued fish decoys are charming, but they are also fabulous at doing their jobs as tools," says Ben Apfelbaum, curator of the exhibition. Not all decoys are expensive. Contemporary Native American wooden fish can be bought...
...yellow slickers blotted globs of petroleum from the discolored sands of Huntington Beach last week, California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, a Democratic candidate for Governor, turned the occasion into an I-told-you-so press conference. "Here you have birds that are dying," he lamented. "You have fish that are dying. And so we're going to the people in November with an initiative that will provide for an inspections program and a $500 million fund to respond to spills. This," he said with a wave at the beach, "is a helluva warning...
...John McKernan, facing a challenge from Democrat Joe Brennan, a strong environmentalist, startled the audience at his state-of-the-state address last month by , proposing to breach the 3,500-kW Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River. That would allow free passage of Atlantic salmon, shad and other fish for the first time since...