Word: swordfishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mercury and Oil. Bruce McDuffie, a bearded chemist at the State University of New York at Binghamton, is the man who recently discovered mercury in U.S. canned tuna (TIME, Dec. 21). In Rome, he reported also finding high mercury levels in commercial swordfish. Reason: according to an American paper presented at the Rome conference, industry is now dumping 5,000 tons of mercury into the oceans each year. Because fish hold mercury in their systems for as long as 500 days, the contamination can travel over vast areas...
Fair, who thrives on Sunday church and swordfish steak, is always in motion. He treats patients in his Boston office every morning, scurries from Harvard athlete to Harvard athlete between lunch and dinner, and then often finishes the day with evening house calls...