Word: sturgeon
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Nessie Is a Sturgeon...
...monster, according to a comprehensive study of Loch Ness to be published in an upcoming issue of the Scottish Naturalist. The most likely explanation for the spate of sightings of the beast that began in 1868, says the study, is the presence in the lake of a school of sturgeon. Sturgeon can weigh up to 500 lbs.; their long snouts might be mistaken for monstrous necks, and their dorsal fins could appear to be humps...
...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...