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...water is too cold, the cod remain close to the inshore spawning grounds, meaning there are even fewer for offshore trawlers to catch. Another consequence of global warming may affect cod eggs and larvae, which are deposited close to the surface and are sensitive to ultraviolet radiation. Stronger sunlight, caused by depletion of the ozone layer, may be killing them. The situation may be exacerbated by the fact that cod don't start migrating until they reach about three years old, when they begin by following the mature adults. But, says Jake Rice, head of the Canadian government's Science...
...genesis of Finlay's book began when she was eight, touring the Chartres Cathedral near Paris with her father. She was entranced by the sunlight beaming through the stained glass, "the blue and red lights dancing on white stones." Her father remarked that artisans had lost the secret for making the blue in the 800-year-old glass, and that comment stuck with Finlay. During a stint as a journalist in Asia, working as arts editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, she broadened the spectrum of her color obsession into ocher, indigo, yellow, green and violet...
...piece about the early onset of darkness, Walter Kirn calls for an emergency extension of daylight saving time (DST) so it will be light later [ESSAY, Nov. 11]. Unlike Kirn, I'm glad dst is over. Without sunlight, I had trouble waking up and facing a new day's challenges. An extra hour of light in the afternoon doesn't really do any good. Who is going to take a walk in diminishing sunlight when it's almost freezing outside? Extending DST is not going to change people's perception of winter very much. Winter isn't a gloomy time...
...clear days we’ve had this rainy autumn, I walked down Brattle Street to Mount Auburn Cemetery and wandered through acres furrowed with headstones and eroding statues. The sky was that distant hard blue you see only in the fall, and sunlight filled the laps of all the seated weeping angels. In that clear cool silence, everything I saw seemed charged with profound meaning; the wasps that, drowsy in the chill, buzzed through the fretted door of a crypt nauseated me. We are, I thought, the wasps and I, the only quick creatures in all these acres...
...about 10 yards out into the shallows of the Atlantic and turns back toward the beach. "And action!" director Lee Tamahori calls through a megaphone. Berry dips under the surface, pops back up, runs her hands through her hair, then sashays toward shore, her wet skin glistening in the sunlight. Tamahori asks her to do it again. And again. Then he has her swim toward the camera. "And action!" Cut, action, cut, action, one final "Cut!"--and the set bursts into applause...