So begins the play peregriNasyon (Wandering Nation), about the first Filipino migrant workers, who picked asparagus in California and canned fish in Alaska three generations ago.

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At the same time, the man wants to have a girlfriend but doesn't know how to talk about subjects outside of his one narrow interest, and he serves canned fish to anyone he has over.

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But it continues to invest in developing the taste for its own brands of palm oil, condensed milk, tinned meat and canned fish in a hinterland market that has often been a dumping ground for leftovers from elsewhere.

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Fred Volkmar, director of the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the recent study, described one former patient who has a master's degree, goes to work and lives on his own, but every night he eats the same meal, canned fish, reads on the computer about software and then goes to bed.

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The small, soft, edible bones of fresh sardines and smelts and canned bone-in fish like salmon are valuable sources of calcium.

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Albacore tuna is higher in mercury than canned light tuna because canned tuna is largely younger, smaller fish that haven't absorbed as much mercury.

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