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Buried toxins can also be moved around by shrimp and other creatures that dig into the bottom and spread the substances through digestion and excretion. Though ocean sediment generally accumulates at a rate of about one-half inch - per thousand years, Biogeochemist John Farrington of the University of Massachusetts at Boston cites discoveries of plutonium from thermonuclear test blasts in the 1950s and 1960s located 12 in. to 20 in. deep in ocean sediment. Thus contaminants can conceivably lie undisturbed in the oceans indefinitely -- or resurface at any time...
There is little question that the oceans have an enormous ability to absorb pollutants and even regenerate once damaged waters. For example, some experts feared that the vast 1979 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico would wipe out the area's shrimp industry. That disaster did not occur, apparently because the ocean has a greater capacity to break down hydrocarbons than scientists thought. But there may be a limit to how much damage a sector of ocean can take. Under assault by heavy concentrations of sludge, for example, the self- cleansing system can be overwhelmed. Just like decaying algae...
...fillet of salmon with ancho chili tomatilloes. At Tamayo's, a $2.5 million restaurant located on the edges of East Los Angeles, appetizers include grilled marinated octopus and onion on corn tortillas, followed by such entrees as baked marinated milk-fed kid with ancho and arbol chili, or seasoned shrimp cooked in a stew of capers, olives and tomatoes. Says Tamayo's managing partner, Stan Kandel: "We've had people coming in saying, 'Where's the Mexican food, where are the burritos?' " There were, he admits, a few concessions to Anglo tastes. "We were very conscious of the spicing, that...
...tongue and on the ball, metal wood is the dumbest-sounding oxymoron since jumbo shrimp. But, like television journalist, its usage has proliferated beyond the inventors' dreams. Once lovingly crafted of tempered wood, the heads of drivers are going steel. If even Nicklaus is bonging these days instead of bashing, the game has certainly changed. "I still hit the ((old)) persimmon club one or two yards longer," he estimates with charming precision, "but I hit the metal wood straighter. That's what convinced me. I feel very confident now that I'm going to drive the ball in the fairway...
...Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire party, pulsing with the calypso beat, dances around the table like frenzied Jamaican dockworkers. Lift six-foot, seven-foot, eight-foot bunch! Monstrous arms spring out of the shrimp tureens and leech onto the faces of the revelers. Who on earth has possessed them...