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The catch was a fluke-only once before this year had Boucher caught any yellowtail flounder-but New England fishermen hope that it was an omen. Reason: Shanty Girl was the first dragger to dock at New Bedford, the region's largest fishing port, since a new law took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEA: Net Gain Along the Shores | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Other than signaling the beginning of its campaign against Galante, the DEA may have been interested in pushing the story for another reason: to save itself from extinction. Early last month Attorney General Griffin Bell, noting that he considered drugs "the biggest crime problem in America," announced that he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Cigar for the Mafia | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

(2) Bacterial Ecology. Every living species is adapted to a given range of habitats. The set of bacterial strains called E. coli thrive only in the vertebrate gut, and because these cells die out rather quickly in water the E. coli count of a pond or a well is a...

Author: By Bernard D. Davis, | Title: Darwin, Pasteur and the Andromeda Strain | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

Soapy Roles. There are also little pockets of drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beat the Clock | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

The infliction of suffering and the extinction of freedom in the name of containment, balance of power and hypocritical support for some sort of unrecognizable democracy should no longer be tolerated by the American people.

Author: By Mietiades A. and Electra K., S | Title: There is no freedom with manacles: the Greek struggle continues | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

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