Word: pikes
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...FOOL AND THE FISH by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Dial; $12.95). Ivan is that classic Russian archetype, the wise idiot. When he catches a talking pike, it strikes a bargain: if Ivan casts it back into the icy water, his every wish will be granted. The result is riches, fame -- and problems. Gennady Spirin's paintings exhibit the palette of Russian icons and the surreal quality of Bruegel landscapes...
...only made me pick my appropriately named torture. I had the options of "interval training" (intervals of two weeks, I hoped), "Pike's Peak" (for those who exercise in hiking boots instead of Reeboks), "random" (for my house assignment), "manual control" (for Gov. concentrators), "roller coaster" (the machine does a 360 while you climb), "lunar landing" (so you can space out while exercising) or "steady climb" (for underachievers...
...James D. Lightbody '40 of Pepper Pike, Ohio, said that "once we can identify each other we can almost pick up where were communicating before. We all have a little less hair and a little more weight, but many have the same characteristics...
...There is no logic to this," says Douglas Pike, a retired State Department analyst who assiduously read accounts of every reported MIA sighting but was never able to come up with verification by a second source. A resident of northern Vietnam, released after 13 years in re-education camps, is equally incredulous. "Americans? There are no Americans here. I never heard of any." The Vietnamese people long ago gave up looking for their own missing. Bodies decompose quickly in the subtropical climate. Although no U.S. official will say so publicly, the widespread conviction is that there are no more live...
...scene, which was played out again last week, symbolizes a clash of cultures. At issue are 19th century treaties, recently upheld by the federal courts, that allow the Chippewa to spear spawning walleyed pike in the shallows of 178 northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...