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...that I had invented Murray's: as a child, reading the words SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK FOR TWO off billboards, meditating on them, I had created a kingdom of elegance more durable than any restaurant where an immaculate young waiter introduces himself and tells you about the broiled marlin served in fennel mustard sauce on a bed of basmati rice and topped with shredded asiago cheese and lightly toasted pine nuts. I would never take out-of-towners to Murray's. Nobody whom I wanted to impress. Only my dearest friends. Only old Minnesota pals who grew up with Murrayism...
...most imminent peril are the giant predators of the oceans--sharks, of course, but also marlin, sailfish, swordfish and bluefin tuna, the magnificent swimming machines that have earned the nickname "Porsches of the sea." In the western Atlantic, the breeding population of northern bluefin, the largest tuna species, is thought to consist of perhaps 40,000 adults, down from some 250,000 two decades ago. Reason: the flourishing airfreight industry that allows fish brokers to deliver Atlantic Ocean bluefin overnight to Tokyo's sashimi market, where a single fish can fetch $80,000 or more at auction. "To a fisherman...
...draw in the creatures that swim or crawl alongside, including halibut, Pacific herring, Pacific salmon and king crab. In similar fashion, so-called longlines--which stretch for tens of miles and bristle with thousands of hooks--snag not just tuna and swordfish but also hapless sea turtles and albatrosses, marlin and sharks...
...what makes the show so appealing is the Kratts' ironic manner, which suggests Keanu Reeves auditioning for a role as Marlin Perkins. The brothers' commentary is full of "whoas!" and "awrights!" but their breeziness never belies their smarts. Chris, 27, studied biology at Carleton College in Minnesota; Martin, 30, majored in zoology at Duke. Seven years ago, the brothers took a semester off from college, packed a Hi8 camera and traveled to Costa Rica to record wildlife adventures. After graduation, Chris received a prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for study abroad and expanded the project. Eventually the brothers took their...
...people who had access to the White House. That seems odd, since Lisa Wetzl testified that when she looked at the list after taking Marceca's job in the fall of 1994, one name that shouldn't have been there "jumped out at me." It was the name of Marlin Fitzwater, who had been George Bush's press secretary. (Some other names that Marceca, who had worked in Democratic campaigns, should have recognized: James Baker, Bush's Secretary of State, and Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Adviser.) Wetzl says she then told Livingstone that Marceca had been using...