Defining the classic novel Nov 6, 2008
In reality, Ive only read eight The Great Gatsby, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Call of the Wild and Wide Sargasso Sea ... This time I fared a bit better, having read 13 of the books listed including all of the ones on the boards list except for Wide Sargasso Sea and adding The Fountainhead, The Lord of the Rings, To Kill a... (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
A DROP IN THE BUCKET: Slimy ships passing in the night Oct 13, 2008
They live as adults in our lake's and slow moving rivers up to 50 years, they migrate to the ocean, actually the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda where it is assumed they mate and lay their eggs. The young eels or glass eels, take a year to swim back to the North American coast and swim up our coastal rivers. (Ipswich Chronicle, MA)
Talking Heads: Ian Kiernan Aug 18, 2008
An engaging and fairly open sort of character, with no poverty of self belief, Kiernan traverses the early days when he was an acquisitive Sydney property developer to the moment he had his epiphany in the Sargasso Sea during a round-the-world ocean race. The Clean Up campaign, which began as an initiative to pick up rubbish around Sydney Harbour in 1989, has now grown into a global movement involving 130 countries. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Book group to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea Aug 18, 2008
Book group to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea - Marshfield, MA - Marshfield Mariner ... Book group to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea ... The next session will meet on Tuesday, Aug. 19, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the library s historical room to discuss Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
TV Cartoon Series: Jonny Quest Jun 17, 2008
The first 30-minute episode, "The Mystery of the Lizard Men," featured Dr. Quest and company investigating the destruction of several fishing vessels in the Sargasso Sea. Jonny Quest was later moved to Thursday nights on December 24, 1964, occupying the 7:30-8 PM (ET) slot. (Suite101.com)
Pushing the price of petroleum, literally May 24, 2008
The lawn looked like a giant Sargasso Sea, choked with reeds. Was there no end to it. (Westford Eagle, MA)
2020 have your say: the economy Apr 14, 2008
Why are we the 'Sargasso sea' of world media and creative product ... "Why are we the 'Sargasso sea' of world media and creative product? Our biggest export market for this NZ! And we run a $5bn trade deficit on this."Because we'd rather take the piss than take an idea and make it work. (ABC Online)
AGU Journal Highlights -- March 19, 2008 Mar 20, 2008
Once they are isolated from the surface, they may survive for years as indicated by their findings south and west in the Sargasso Sea. Title: Current broadening as a mechanism for anticyclogenesis at the northwest corner of the North Atlantic Current. (EurekAlert!)
Breaking Into The Escapists Mar 8, 2008
Rather, it s an interpretation, or an angle, like what Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea is to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. It s an excellent graphic novel about comics art, and though it lacks the depth of character and the historic nature of its spiritual predecessor, The Escapists stands alone as a fine story about friendship, comics, and creativity. (Suite101.com)
Mysterious Eel Fishery Decline Mar 7, 2008
Although many aspects of spawning and early life history of this species are poorly understood, they are clearly adapted to grow in the low productivity waters of the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda, NOAA biologist Kevin Friedland said ... Both European and American eels spawn in the open ocean in the Sargasso Sea, in an area between the Bahamas and Bermuda, where distinct temperature fronts are present in the winter and spring that form a northern boundary of the spawning area, believed to be... (Science Daily)
The Daily Orange reviews the required reading for the spring semester Jan 16, 2008
Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" (ETS 440) ... On the other hand, "Wide Sargasso Sea" does deal with important themes, while explaining the tragic background of the first Mrs. Rochester, who in "Jane Eyre" is merely a raving lunatic. (Daily Orange, NY)
'Getting things right' Jan 5, 2008
But above all, she learned from Jean Rhys, whom Athill helped to rediscover in 1957, when Rhys had not yet finished Wide Sargasso Sea - a book which would very likely not have been published without Athill's perseverance and nursing, astute advice and friendship. Rhys would say, "'cut, cut, cut. Keep it down as much possible.' She used to overdo it, even.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Scientist On Quest For Disappearing Eel Dec 27, 2007
American eels begin their lives as eggs hatching in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda ... However, since the mid 1980s there has been a spectacular drop in the numbers of juvenile eels migrating to Lake Ontario from the Sargasso Sea, and a corresponding decline in the numbers of adults. (Science Daily)
Scientists study Lake Champlain eel decline Dec 12, 2007
American eels start life in the Sargasso Sea, an area in the Atlantic Ocean between the West Indies and the Azores ... Historically, immature female eels swam up the St. Lawrence and Richelieu rivers and lived 10 to 20 years in Lake Champlain before returning to the Sargasso Sea. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Family affairs Oct 28, 2007
Tim remembers the point at which he stopped worrying about his son (kind of): last year, Rafe brought home a rough cut of Wide Sargasso Sea, a steamy adaptation of the Jean Rhys novel in which he played Edward Rochester ... Rebecca co-starred with Rafe Spall in Wide Sargasso Sea. (Guardian Unlimited)
Petes Pigskin Prognostications Oct 19, 2007
The hyper-conservative playcalling of the last several weeks has the Vandy faithful (both of them) beginning to question the chances of finally getting the Black and Gold out of the football Sargasso Sea. The Evil Genius at South Carolina is 15-0 against the Commodores. (VandyMania.com)
The never-ending story Oct 16, 2007
Jean Rhys s novel Wide Sargasso Sea, explores one specific character in Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre, telling the story of the madwoman locked in Rochester s attic. Now Wide Sargasso Sea is read in high school and college literature classes. (Boston Globe)
Naomi Watts balancing movies and motherhood Sep 12, 2007
Judging from her track record, which features such oddities as The Wide Sargasso Sea and her breakout feature, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, Watts isn't afraid of taking risks and working with auteur directors. But there's one professional risk she's not going to take -- at least not now: She won't stop working. (Canada.com)
Television movies for the week of Sept. 9 Sep 9, 2007
TV Movies: Sept. 9-15. G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
What does soulful mean? Sep 1, 2007
In the same spirit she had introduced me to Wide Sargasso Sea and The Bluest Eye, and I had not liked either of them - better to say, I had not allowed myself to like either of them. I preferred my own freely chosen, heterogeneous reading list. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Letters to the editor Aug 31, 2007
Four years ago you printed a letter from me in which I said I believed our "ship of state" under the command of George W. Bush was sailing into a Sargasso Sea: Iraq. Here we are still trying to find a means to escape from this tangled mess. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Beauty in the beast Jul 14, 2007
Jean Rhys looked at Jane Eyre through the eyes of Mr Rochester's mad wife in the brilliant Wide Sargasso Sea; John Gardner has Grendel the Monster give a capering, blood-swilling, tragic rendition of Beowulf in the equally brilliant Grendel. Classics such as Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, and - endlessly - Dracula, have had their shadow versions, as have many other books. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Homage a toi Jul 12, 2007
And, in spin-off vein, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys pays homage to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It imagines the life of Rochester and his first wife (the one who goes mad and is held in the tower) in the Caribbean. (Channel 4 News)
Double vision Jun 30, 2007
Anna Ralph I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Pat Barker War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky Holy Sonnets of John Donne Poems of George Herbert Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Caught in the middle: Barriers to migration threaten eel population Jun 26, 2007
American eels start as eggs hatching in the Sargasso Sea, a 2-million-square-mile warm-water body in the North Atlantic between the West Indies and the Azores ... Then they return to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and die. (Stamford Advocate)
Barriers to migration threaten eel population Jun 25, 2007
American eels start as eggs hatching in the Sargasso Sea, a 2-million-square-mile warm-water body in the North Atlantic between the West Indies and the Azores ... Then they return to their Sargasso Sea waters to spawn and die. (Greenwich Time)
Envisat Captures First Image Of Sargassum From Space Jun 7, 2007
"It is usually associated with the area of the North Atlantic known as the Sargasso Sea after the Sargassum encountered there by early explorers. Our observations of Sargassum lines extending over large areas of the Gulf show that in this area and season it represents a significant fraction of marine primary productivity.". Marine primary production is the process by which floating vegetation, such as phytoplankton and seaweed, absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and convert... (Science Daily)
Threatened Eels Live to Swim Again in EU's Rivers Jun 5, 2007
No one knows exactly where eels spawn, but the smallest larvae are found in the Sargasso Sea, south of Bermuda. They then drift towards Europe. (Planet Ark, United States)
Oceanic Storms Create Oases In The Watery Desert May 23, 2007
These huge parcels of water were teeming with diatoms (a type of phytoplankton) in concentrations 10,000 to 100,000 times the norm--among the highest ever observed in the Sargasso Sea ... The Sargasso Sea, like other mid-ocean regions of the world, is warmer, saltier, bluer, and clearer than most other parts of the North Atlantic ... They started with NASA satellite measurements of sea surface height to locate eddies in the Sargasso Sea, south and east of the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic. (Science Daily)
Huck Finn's dad takes center stage Apr 4, 2007
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea looks to Jane Eyre, Sena Naslund's Ahab's Wife stems from Moby-Dick and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead revisits Hamlet. Clinch says he was pleased when the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Geraldine Brooks' March, an imagining of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
A slippery slope Apr 1, 2007
In spring, the Sargasso Sea teems with thousands of tiny, transparent, leaf-shaped baby eels ... Although there are some physical and genetic differences between the European eels and American eels, they are all thought to congregate in the Sargasso Sea to spawn ... The adult eels congregate in the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda to spawn, where each female lays as many as 10 to 20 million eggs. (Globe and Mail)
Deep sea bacteria could be key to clean energy production Mar 16, 2007
The new findings build on results Dr Venter obtained during a 2003 test voyage in the Sargasso Sea, which had been considered a lifeless body of water. That netted more than 1 million genes new to science evidence that the oceans harbour microbes far more numerous and stranger than scientists had imagined. (The Age)
Millions Of New Genes, Thousands Of New Protein Families Found In Ocean Sampling Expedition Mar 15, 2007
The Sorcerer II Expedition began with a pilot project in 2003 in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda in which more than one million new genes and hundreds of new photoreceptors were discovered in what was thought to be an area of low diversity ... Rusch et al. describe the results of metagenomic analysis of 37 samples taken aboard Sorcerer II during its voyage between Halifax, Nova Scotia and French Polynesia in 2003 to 2004, combined with seven samples collected during the pilot study in the Sargasso... (Science Daily)
Ocean survey finds new genes, proteins Mar 15, 2007
The new findings, described in the March issue of the journal PLoS Biology, build on results Venter obtained during a 2003 test voyage in the Sargasso Sea, which had been considered an especially lifeless body of water. That netted more than 1 million genes entirely new to science - evidence that Earth's seas harbor microbes far more numerous and far stranger than scientists had imagined. (San Jose Mercury News)
Yacht voyage turns up abundant sample of genes Mar 14, 2007
For instance, some seem particularly well adapted to the area where they were found, in a confluence of warm currents in the middle of the North Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea. "The Sargasso Sea is deep indigo blue. The organisms that live there see primarily blue light," Venter said. (Scientific American)
Microbes reveal extent of biodiversity Mar 14, 2007
It follows an earlier, smaller study that uncovered rich microbial diversity in the Sargasso Sea (J. C. Venter et al. Science 304, 66-74; 2004). The analyses of the first set of 7. (Nature News Service)
Huck Finn's monstrous father takes center stage in new novel Feb 20, 2007
Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea" looks to "Jane Eyre," Sena Naslund's "Ahab's Wife" stems from "Moby-Dick" and Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" revisits "Hamlet.". Clinch said he was pleased when the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to Geraldine Brooks' "March," an imagining of the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women." To him, the award suggests that people can and will take seriously books using classic novels to create something new and original. (NEPA News, PA)
Missing Link Feb 5, 2007
Wallace s ship caught fire and sank, and he found himself, after four years in the Amazon, floating in an open boat in the Sargasso Sea, seven hundred miles from shore. He was without friends, having quarrelled with Bates halfway through the expedition. (New Yorker)
American eels not endangered, feds say Feb 1, 2007
There are a few pockets of trouble, most notably in the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River area, where large dams are blocking the eels' path to spawn in the Sargasso Sea, an expanse of warm, algae-filled water east of Bermuda. Overfishing of the eels, which are often used as bait, has also led to a decline in the Chesapeake Bay. (Herald Online, SC -- Health)
Man loses bid to have eel declared endangered Jan 31, 2007
All freshwater eels in the Western Hemisphere originate in the Sargasso Sea, a submerged expanse of algae near Bermuda ... After decades, they must return to the Sargasso Sea to breed. (Boston Globe)
Feds say American eels don't qualify as endangered species Jan 31, 2007
The announcement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comes after the agency's two-year review of the eel population prompted by a Tim Watts, a Middleboro janitor who was concerned that too many of the fish were dying along their journey to spawn in the Sargasso Sea ... American eels only spawn in the Sargasso Sea, an expanse of warm, algae-filled water east of Bermuda ... Later in life, the fish find their way back to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and die. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Potomac passageways to aid upstream migration of eels (David Dishneau) Jan 21, 2007
The dams obstruct young eels' 1,000-mile journey from their birthplace in the Sargasso Sea, an area of warm water in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to the freshwater rivers of North America. Eels return to the Sargasso once before dying to spawn but spend most of their lives -- up to 24 years -- in brackish and fresh waters. (Washington Times)
Make way for the eels Jan 16, 2007
All eels are born in the Sargasso Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean south of Bermuda ... When they mature they begin their long downstream journey to the Sargasso Sea ... Once at sea, if the eels make it past the Beluga whales, which like to eat them, they aim for the Sargasso Sea, where they will mate, lay eggs and die. (Frederick News-Post)
