Word: swims
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Japanese "Piracy." The embarrassing fact is that after they leave their spawning grounds upriver from Alaska's Bristol Bay the sockeye swim farther out to sea than anyone imagined When the U.S., Canada and Japan instituted their North Pacific fisheries treaty in 1953, North American negotiators set 175 degrees west longitude as the eastward limit for Japanese fishermen, confident that no Alaska salmon ventured that far west. But Japa nese fishermen found plenty of sockeye outside the boundary, and marine biologists soon learned the truth: in its life cycle, the sockeye swims out around the Aleutian islands for more...
Jerk, Dog, Swim & Frug...
...working on heart disease, and seven physicians (six Americans, one Malaysian) working on hyaline membrane disease at Singapore's Kandang Kerbau Hospital, all found themselves reaching back to studies of ducks and seals-experiments that were in some cases nearly a century old. When those aquatic creatures swim below the surface, a "dive" reflex slows their heartbeats and contracts their peripheral arteries, thus concentrating the available oxygenated blood in the heart and brain. Most of the body's tissues then switch from an oxygen-burning system to one in which nutrients are "burned" without oxygen...
...wiggles, that's the frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion and you have the monkey. Stick your thumbs in your ears and it's the mouse or the mule; up in the air, and it's the hitchhiker?and so on for the woodpecker, Cleopatra, Popeye, Harry James, Frankenstein...
...trouble with this hallucinatory first novel is that Author Moreau i trying to be like Sartre, only smartre. His intense existentialism is closer to dementia, and the result is a raging stream of semiconsciousness in which real and imagined horrors swim by, indistinguishable and unreal. "You go through streets but you do not see the streets, you go through people but you do not see the people," muses Quinte, who doesn...