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...Squid with Backbone Your notebook item "Catch Of The Century" reported on the hunt and temporary capture of an 8-m-long giant squid [Oct. 10]. You described how the squid finally freed itself by tearing off one of its 5.5-m-long tentacles, leaving it behind on the hook that had impaled it. Giant squids may not be the most likable of creatures, but do they deserve such treatment? I think I would be somewhat "active and aggressive" too if I were forced to tear off my own limb while scientists sat back, casually making their observations. Fergus Mahon...
...Squid with Backbone Your notebook item "Catch of the Century" reported on the hunt and temporary capture of an 8-m-long giant squid [Oct. 10]. You described how the squid finally freed itself by tearing off one of its 5.5-m-long tentacles, leaving it behind on the hook that had impaled it. Giant squids may not be the most likable of creatures, but do they deserve such treatment? I think I would be somewhat "active and aggressive" too if I were forced to tear off my own limb while scientists sat back, casually making their observations. Fergus Mahon...
...Sartorius seems a familiar name, it's because we first glimpsed him in Doctorow's 1994 novel The Waterworks, a story of murderous intrigues in early 20th century Manhattan. And among the freed slaves is Coalhouse Walker, whose son and namesake will rage at the center of Ragtime. You sense that with this work Doctorow is inviting us to regard his novels as a career-length meditation on more than a century of the American past, with its bloodshed and racial obsessions, its hallucinatory edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime...
...FREED. ROY HALLUMS, 57, U.S. contractor, formerly of Newport Beach, Calif., kidnapped at gunpoint last November while working for a Saudi catering company that provided food to the Iraqi army and last seen publicly in January in a video, pleading for his life; by U.S. forces, acting on a tip from a recent detainee, in a raid on an Iraqi farmhouse, where he had been held, bound and gagged; near Baghdad...
...most ambitious and controversial art-restoration project of the 20th century, the cleaning of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, is in its eighth year, with five years still to go. All the wall lunettes and three of the nine Old Testament scenes on the ceiling are finished, freed of 478 years of accumulated grime, crude repaints and successive coats of darkened glue size applied as a varnish by 17th and 18th century restorers. A quite different Michelangelo, one whose intensity and beauty of color matches his long-acknowledged grandeur as draftsman and iconographer, emerges. The vault...