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...only one known to make a complete meal out of sweets. Gail Beck and Barbara Peck periodically order desserts as main courses in New York City's Oyster Bar & Restaurant in Grand Central Station, which lays out a whole table of alluring confections to tempt its mostly seafood-eating customers. "We wear sunglasses when we do that," says Peck, who wouldn't want to run into her diet doctor. "And walk in backward," adds Beck...
...house is miles from Manhattan, out in Oyster Bay, on the north shore of Long Island. From the large home to the rolling acreage and the bounteous orchid gardens, this is Gatsby territory, a place of retreat. But in his work Geoffrey Beene is not interested in insulating himself or in evoking a Pololand of faux nostalgia and privileged period froufrou. Since he began his own label in the spring of 1963, Beene has kept a pace and set a standard that has made him, gradually and quietly, one of the most intrepid of fashionmakers...
...Maine, harbor seals currently have the highest pesticide level of any U.S. mammals, on land or in water. From Portland to Morehead City, N.C., fishermen have been hauling up lobsters and crabs with gaping holes in their shells and fish with rotted fins and ulcerous lesions. Last year's oyster haul in Chesapeake Bay was the worst ever; the crop was decimated by dermo, a fungal disease, and the baffling syndrome MSX (multinucleate sphere...
...beds in Texas have been closed eleven times in the past 18 months because of pollution. Crab fisheries in Lavaca Bay, south of Galveston, were forced to shut down when dredging work stirred up mercury that had settled in the sediment. In neighboring Louisiana 35% of the state's oyster beds are closed because of sewage contamination. Says Oliver Houck, a professor of environmental law at Tulane: "These waters are nothing more than cocktails of highly toxic substances...
Those not yet ready for so momentous an adventure could fill up on bright red, chili-fired Portuguese linguica sausage, oyster shooters (each a single- shelled oyster in a shot glass to be knocked back with a dash of lemon juice or cocktail sauce), assorted meat satays and hot dogs, pickled garlic, egg rolls, cookies, ice cream and chocolate-dipped strawberries, all washed down with soft drinks, beer or wine margaritas...