Word: pickerell
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...haired creature," and finds her proximity to him disconcerting. In time, each learns to depend on the other. The two characters establish a congenial rapport--having agreed on the fact that they were the only two creatures who could talk--despite all their disagreements about whether something was a "pickerel" or a "swimmer" or whether Eve was "raining" or "crying...
...have been sexually slumming for years," confesses Miranda Pickerel...
...that mercury changes its potency in water; through a complex chemical reaction, the relatively harmless inorganic form is transformed into deadly methyl mercury. Minute amounts are picked up by microorganisms, which are then eaten by small fish, which in turn are eaten by large predatory fish like pike and pickerel. When humans eat these fish, they can receive dosages of methyl mercury massive enough to cause blindness, brain damage, and even death...
Potential Disaster. In previous years, moreover, when the state legislature tried to enact strong antipollution bills, local industry-especially the pulp and paper companies-hinted that the cost of cleaning up might force them to leave Maine entirely. "Payrolls or pickerel" became the dilemma's label; fish killed by water pollution represented the minimum price for keeping industry and jobs...
...what they might do about the law. Before last week's vote, the lobbyists pointed out that the bill would contradict the cherished Yankee tradition of local rule in every township. Maine's legislators nonetheless accepted it willingly. They no longer want to choose between payrolls and pickerel...