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...Peacock, the bearded owner of one of the town's two sardine canneries, says he believes a 200-mile limit bill would be a great boon, but acknowledges that "Russian encroachment" off the U.S. coast is not the only problem. "The waters are just getting fished out," he says, leaning on a desk in the front office. "There used to be more than 50 fish canneries on the coast, and now there are less than...
...lost money four out of the last five years," he continues. "And things aren't going to get much better. In some ways, I'd just as soon sell the place; call it quits. He's the reason I don't," Peacock adds, pointing to a man about twenty years his senior standing several yards away. "My father runs the business with me, and it's his life...
...employees in Peacock's cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...
...real goal at the manor is babymaking. This is a zookeeper's greatest challenge, since many animals refuse to cooperate even under conditions that seem ideal−to the human eye. Durrell recalls the case of a Congo peacock and peahen that kept trying unsuccessfully to mate. "One day I noticed that their feathers were getting too dry, so we sprayed them with water. Suddenly, bang! Success!" Durrell also warns against expecting animals to take an automatic liking to each other. "We humans seem to think we have a monopoly on love. How would you feel if you were...
Ordained, the young Jesuits now join a fluid, sometimes flamboyant ministry. John Crillo, a San Diego Jesuit, says a free-form English Mass in homemade vestments of peacock greens, blues and yellows; some older colleagues in the order still stick doggedly to the superseded Latin Mass. Other older Jesuits, like Marquette University Historian Paul Prucha, resent the "dilettantism" of the young: "They think they're taking theology by taking courses in theology of the theater or theology of ecology." Together with a growing cadre of radicalized older Jesuits, many younger ones sharply criticize the order's acquisition of property...