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What does this guy eat for breakfast?

History Professor John Marszalek has been unusually busy lately. He's had interviews with two television networks, has seen two of his books released in paperback, and endured the recent earthquake in Los Angeles. Marszalek, who has written books on Civil War Gen. William Sherman, was in L.A. during the quake to tape three interviews with Arts & Entertainment Network as part of their Civil War Journal series.

"We discussed Sherman's march to the sea, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and Civil War journalists," Marszalek said.

The interviews will air some time this spring. In addition, a Showtime network movie, Assault at West Point, based on Marszalek's book, Court Martial: A Black Man in America, will air Feb. 27. The book, about one of the first black cadets at West Point, is renamed for the movie and is now out in paperback. The subject will be probed further on CBS' Eye-to-Eye with Connie Chung when Marszalek is interviewed Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. CST.

If that wasn't enough, another of the professor's books, the Pulitzer-Prize nominated Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order, recently was released in paperback.

Choosing seafood is becoming a shell game

According to federal statistics, about 9,000 Americans die each year from food poisoning, primarily from seafood. Last week, the federal government announced its intention to pay closer attention to the seafood industry and to require that shellfish be labeled by origin.

Enforcement of these new regulations eventually could have an impact on the state's aquaculture industry because a lot of "inferior seafood" is regularly imported into the U.S., says Department of Wildlife and Fisheries researcher Louis D'Abramo.

"Anything that is domestically produced through aquaculture certainly has a distinct safety advantage over (products) coming from natural fisheries," he says. "This is even true of the aquacultural products of other countries since they often don't have the (production) standards we do."

In case you thought that seafood you regularly eat comes from American waters, well, maybe so, maybe not. D'Abramo says that of the 650 million pounds of seafood consumed by Americans last year, 80 percent was imported.

Excuse me, waiter, could I change my order from mahi-mahi to Mississippi farm-raised catfish?

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