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...Yeonpyeong Island, the locals bristle at suggestions they might have provoked the North Koreans. Tucking into a flatfish he has just carved into strips of sashimi, Choi complains that this year's catch was the worst in a decade?the water wasn't warm enough on the right side of the Red Limit Line. So after paying for crews and equipment, most boat owners will lose money. The entire island depends on blue crab, so everybody is hurting, according to Choi, who is vice president of the local fishermen's association. Until 1968, Seoul allowed them to fish right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns and Crustaceans | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

Unsafe Place. Clearly visible when the dust settled was a white flatfish about one foot long. It seemed healthy and it had eyes, although the nearest trace of sunlight was more than seven miles overhead. Swimming six feet above the bottom were a shrimp and a jellyfish, neither of them bothered by the enormous pressure on their bodies. The very fact that these creatures were living and healthy proved that the water had oxygen in it. Therefore it must circulate, because if it were stagnant in the trench, its oxygen would long since have disappeared. One immediate conclusion: ocean trenches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down Under | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...reason I am thought eccentric is that I won't be taught my job by a lot of pipsqueaks. I will not allow people to bore me. Nobody has ever been more alive than I. I am an electric eel in a pond full of flatfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...supporting roles will be taken by Edward Streeter '36 as Scraggy Evan the Post, Robert McKee '37 as Owain Flatfish, Miss Betty Ruth Lawrence as Mari Jones, Miss Katherine Young as Mrs. Jones Bakehouse, Stephen Greene '37 as Timothy Ysgairnolwen, Howard Patch '38 as Mr. Gas Jones and Miss Agnes Love as Mrs. Resurrection Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB PLAYS WELSH DRAMA TONIGHT | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

Other members of the cast are Lois Hall as Gladys--Miss Hall was the Sphinx in "La Machine Infernale"--Edward Streeter '36 as Scraggy Evan the Post, Robert McKee '37 as Owain Flatfish, Betty Ruth Lawrence as Mari Jones, Katherine Young as Mrs. Jones Bakehouse, Stephen Greene '37 as Timothey Yagairnolwen, Howard Patch '38 as Mr. Gas Jones and Agnes Love as Mrs. Resurrection Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SZATHMARY WILL HAVE LEAD IN H. D. C. COMEDY | 4/18/1935 | See Source »

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