Word: sturgeon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nessie Is a Sturgeon...
...week ago at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, over sturgeon, chips and a magnum of champagne (or was it a cup of tea?), the British novelist, Julian Barnes, famous for his inscrutability, consented to let me interview him. The official photographs of Barnes show a darkly brooding, almost Mephistophelean presence. He is in real life, taller and blonder than one would ever dare imagine, inhabiting a room effortlessly and completely. He is neither tweedy like Michael Holroyd nor dandiacal like Tom Wolfe and sits coiled in a too-small armchair. His presence is gently mocking. We tacitly acknowledge...
Nicholas L. Sturgeon, chair of the philosophy department at Cornell, calls his former colleague "terrific, a real catch academically. He's published a lot on standard philosophical issues, and he's extremely learned on African thought. He manages to bring these two together quite fruitfully...
...pass through Hayward, Wisconsin, where the largest sturgeon in captivity was caught. Environmental types will also want to see the memorial to the passenger pigeon in Wyalusing State Park...
...environmental groups have begun to launch restoration projects of unprecedented scale. The Countryside Commission for England and Wales has pledged to reforest 390 sq km (150 sq. mi.) of the industrialized Midlands with 30 million trees. The state of Maine has announced its intention to restore salmon and sturgeon to the Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois Nature Conservancy has begun to resurrect thousands...