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The Founding Fish is a worthy addition to the newly popular genre of the one-fish book (joining Mark Kurlansky's best-selling Cod, among others). Its subject, the relatively unsung American shad, is a large and feisty fish found mostly in rivers in the northeastern U.S. It is the...
In the long run, wild-fish stocks may face an even greater threat from captive fish escaping and competing with or consuming native fish, or cross-breeding with them and diluting the genes that have helped them survive. Fish escapes are common: nets are ripped open by predators or storms...
It was an impressive show of force. Under the cloak of darkness last week, Chinook and Black Hawk choppers dropped an entire battalion of 520 U.S. paratroopers into a remote valley in Afghanistan, just across the border from the rugged mountains of Pakistan, where al-Qaeda has re-established training...
Now, 23 years later, Giulia served as a race official for the regatta this weekend. She attended the event along with Bettina, who is no longer in a wheelchair, her husband John Norton ’56 and their dogs, Ichi-Ban and Muddy. Muddy was named for the Muddy...
From the gloom of this year's I.U.C.N. Red List of Threatened Species emerges one point of light: the Bavarian pine vole. Previously declared to be extinct, this humble rodent is in fact alive and well and living - not in Bavaria as you'd expect, but in Northern Tyrol. (The...