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Coral reefs are more than beautiful structures admired by snorkelers and scuba divers. Their stony ramparts serve as storm barriers that protect shorelines and provide ships with safe harbor. Their nooks and crannies accommodate fish and shellfish that are important sources of food and livelihood for millions of people. And like the tropical forests to which they are frequently compared, reefs are repositories of vast biological wealth as yet untapped for medicinal and industrial uses...
...freighter coming from South Asia emptied its bilges off the coast of Peru. Along with the wastewater came a strain of cholera that found a home in huge algal blooms stimulated by unusually warm ocean waters and abundant pollution. The microbe then made its way into shellfish and humans. So far, the epidemic has infected over half a million people and killed at least...
...cocks her head. ``You know, just yesterday I asked it for help with a Schedule B, and it gave me a recipe for shellfish bisque...
...course Scripture is open to interpretation; ethics do change with the times. Most Judeo-Christians don't prohibit shellfish anymore or appease the deity with slaughtered rams. But there's something suspect about a brand of Judeo-Christianity that can get all het up about the spilling of seed while gliding right past the Sermon on the Mount. We seem to have chosen the easy path, the one that comforts the already comfortable and harangues the already hard pressed. We're the post-Judeo-Christian generation, and the Christian Right is turning out to be nothing more than Christian Lite...
...Dipping raw oysters in Louisiana hot sauce may be frowned upon in fancy French restaurants, but it could keep an aficionado out of the hospital. In laboratory tests, the spicy flavoring killed four kinds of bacteria that can contaminate shellfish and that cause ailments ranging from mild diarrhea to potentially fatal blood poisoning...