With a diluted form of his toxin, the Joker has mutated the fish stocks of Gotham's waters so that they all carry his ghastly grin. Then, since they bear his visage, he tries bullying the copyright office into granting him royalties off the sale of all fish products—potential millions are his to fund his "happily hedonistic" lifestyle, he exults. So Batman has to protect the threatened bureaucrats, and there unfolds an battle of wits as the one attempts, and the other thwarts, ingenious and unexpected assassination attempts.
Researchers at Baylor University have found traces of a pharmaceutical antidepressant in the livers, muscles and brains of bluegills in a Denton County creek, raising concerns about the welfare of the popular sports fish and people who eat them.
The chemical is fluoxetine -- the primary component in Prozac. It likely came from a city of Denton wastewater treatment plant, which discharges into Pecan Creek and flows into Lake Lewisville in North Texas. Traces of the drug that are not absorbed into the body can flow down the toilet and through wastewater treatment plants, which are not designed to filter out pharmaceuticals.
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