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...Heydt, who will receive his doctorate in English in November will make the move across Mill Street with his wife Margaret, four-month old daughter Elizabeth and 110-pound Newfoundland dog Augustus. He will be taking the place of Courtney B. Lamberth, who announced last month that she was leaving...
...blue terrier named TORUMS SCARF MICHAEL. The judges, who belong to that elite group of non-rappers who can say "bitch" a lot, chose Mick, as he's known for short, over 2,602 other contestants, including a bichon frise named Paray's I Told You So and a Newfoundland named Darbydale's All Rise Pouchcove. Neither Mick nor his owner, Marilu Hansen, will get any prize money, but Mick will get to breed with lots of good-looking dogs. And isn't that its own reward...
...square mile," she tells you. Whether or not she has her math right, it would be fair to say that it represents her notion of congenial population density. After living long and hard in 13 small towns in Vermont, with regular excursions to a house she still keeps in Newfoundland--a place for people who think Maine is overcrowded--she has put down for some years in Centennial, Wyo., a microscopic settlement west of Laramie at the foot of the Medicine Bow Mountains. Just outside town there's a sign that claims the place has pop. 100. That estimate might...
...fishing, because it is a large species that doesn't reach sexual maturity until at least four years of age. But cod can be harvested from the age of one, which leaves fewer and fewer fish of reproductive age. Whenever collapsing cod stocks are mentioned, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are held up as a grim example of what can happen if things are left until too late. Canadian scientists watched stocks dwindle through the late 1980s, but failed to persuade the government to act. So when fishing was finally banned in 1992, the fishery stood...
...around 1434. But the map's defenders are holding fast. "If it is a forgery, then the forger was surely one of the most skillful to pursue this line of work," said chemist Garman Harbottle of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Besides, say others, archaeologists have found Norse settlements in Newfoundland dating from about...