Word: salmon
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Almost no one can discuss children rationally; having children and raising them successfully is an essentially irrational act. It obeys a profound and sometimes self-punishing logic like salmon thrashing upriver to spawn, an impulse encoded in the race's will to go on. All kinds of aversions to and adorations of children occur simultaneously now. The young are battered and cherished, subjected to violent extremes of malnourishment and indulgence. Children are so swaddled in myth and delusion that Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, argues that Americans should...
...Klamath River winds down over the Oregon border into the deep green wilderness of Siskiyou County in northern California, bringing with it the finest steelhead and salmon fishing in the West. Rugged hills jut up from its banks, shadowed by towering trees. In the valleys beyond lie sparkling blue streams and half a dozen clear lakes. Not a single country house mars the virgin beauty of this vast territory. Yet it is the personal playground of some 2,500 nature lovers...
...less common birds such as the pochard, a type of duck, and the dunlin, a sandpiper. In March, the Thames Water Authority will begin restocking the upper reaches of the tidal Thames with what the agency's boss, Hugh Fish, calls the "most persnickety offish"-the Atlantic salmon...
...Citizens living along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau once paddled his skiff, were thankful that a workman at the Lawrence Dam spotted a 9½-lb. salmon last week...
...known to exist worldwide. About 14,500 of these have breeding grounds in the Orkneys, and they have been on Britain's protected species list since 1914. Lately, however, British fishermen have complained that the voracious mammals have been eating too much of the depleted whitefish and salmon stocks in North Atlantic waters. The government's Scottish Office, with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals...