"In Louisiana, the Mississippi River is so loaded with nitrogen runoff from
Midwestern farms that when its floodwaters overflow into nearby Lake
Pontchartrain, the lake turns lethal. The last time that happened, in 1997,
crabbers found 'all the crabs dead in their traps,' recalls fisherman Pete
Gercia of Bayou Sauvage."
The articles can be found on-line at
http://www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&stor
yid=1150470208371
Christopher Scharpf
Baltimore
"The secret of life is to have a task....And the most important thing is -- it
must be something you cannot possibly do!"
Henry Moore, sculptor
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