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Officials found large numbers of fishing camps on national parkland, particularly on the shores of Isabela and Fernandina, which scientists consider the world's largest pristine island. Unlicensed fishermen had cut down and burned protected mangroves (home of the rare mangrove finch) to dry their sea cucumbers and had slaughtered dozens of giant tortoises for food. Reacting to the overfishing, the government shut down the season a month early, triggering the protests last winter. But illegal harvests are continuing--and now seahorses and pipefish, valued in Asia for their purported aphrodisiac and medicinal value, are being taken too. A small...
...such empire building is to maintain a flow of patients to the teaching hospital. His health-insurance company initially tried to talk Daniel Vonk, a teacher from Fernandina Beach, Florida, out of going to the Mayo branch in Jacksonville because its fees were so high. Vonk went anyway, on a referral from a sports-medicine specialist who had done an mri when he learned that an ache in Vonk's leg had persisted for more than a year. Mayo specialists diagnosed the problem as bone cancer and subjected Vonk to three operations; Vonk also spent six months in a partial...
...after clashing with his colleagues, and his professional reputation suffered three years later when he was put on two years' probation for improper prescription of narcotics. He could be compassionate and conscientious with his regular patients. Marjorie Mason, a patient who lives in his hometown of Fernandina Beach, Florida, praises him for seeing her through a difficult pregnancy: "He held my hand through the whole thing." Yet Britton could be brusque and abrasive with clients he inherited from Gunn. Nor did he believe in turning the other cheek: he packed a .357 Magnum and talked freely about his willingness...
Died. Major General (ret.) Frank Dow Merrill, 52, leader of World War II's jungle-fighting "Merrill's Marauders"; of a heart attack; in Fernandina Beach, Fla. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...business." Nobody knows how old the songs are. Among the menhaden fishermen, most of them Negroes from the tidewater South, the chanteys have been handed down from father to son, from crew to crew. Chaplin also learned from the Barnegat's song leader, Walter Kegler of Fernandina, Fla., that menhaden fishermen are picked "almost as much for their music as their muscles." The singing has two functions, Kegler explained: it provides a rhythmic pulse for hauling in the seine, and it is "thanksgiving" for a good haul ("No need singing when the catch is small...