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Originally a saltwater dweller, the sea lamprey moved up the fresh water of the St. Lawrence and into Lake Ontario to spawn, then developed a fresh-water species. The building of Canada's Welland Canal provided a detour around the natural barrier of Niagara Falls, and in the past 20 years the pests have begun to thrive in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and, more recently, in Lake Superior. Multiplying enormously, with each female averaging 61,500 eggs, and feeding greedily, with each maturing lamprey devouring up to 40 pounds of fish, they have already wiped...
...looking into the possibility of a domestic market for the lamprey's white, tasty but highly indigestible flesh.* Of all the tested antidotes, the most workable is an electrically charged fence that can be stretched across the Great Lakes' tributary streams, into which the lampreys swim to spawn. Other fish will turn away from the electric field, but the lamprey will swim against the fence and be electrocuted...
...relied shamelessly on the "devil" theory of history. "Wall Street," "big businessmen," "reactionaries," "economic royalists" were tagged as villains. The logical legacy of the devil theory was the witch hunt. Professor Robinson implies that today's political " 'primitives' of limited intelligence," e.g., the McCarthyites, are the spawn of Roosevelt's intemperate labeling of political enemies. Equally damaging to the American policy, according to Robinson, was F.D.R.'s reliance on his intimate junta of nonelective braintrusters...
...Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the particular faction that he favors within the party. Also making for splintering is a freehanded provision of the law, designed to cover campaign expenses, that requires the government to pay each group $1.30 in advance for every vote it expects to get. (After the election, they have to pay back...
Sean O'Casey is a literary salmon who splashed out of a Dublin slum, leaped the rapids of poverty, and has never stopped swimming stubbornly upstream to spawn his silvery prose. Sunset and Evening Star is the sixth and final volume of his lively, third-person autobiography. With cantankerous, merry and garrulous gusto, the 74-year-old O'Casey evokes the great shades of Irish letters-Yeats, Shaw, Joyce-without fully clinching his eventual right to join them. But "bad or good, right or wrong, O'Casey's always himself," probably the world's greatest...