Ways to Prevent Overfishing to Save the Oceans The New York Times | To the Editor: | Your June 22 editorial "Ocean Rescue," touting fishery privatization through "catch shares" as a way to end overfishing and the "race to fish," offers a simplistic explanation of a complex topic. | Jane Lubchenco, the new administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin...
The IoS pink list 2009 in full The Independent | 1 (last year's rating 64) Peter Mandelson | First Secretary of State; Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills; Lord President of the Council | Where do we start? At the time of last year's Pink List he was a mere EU Trade Commissioner planning his summer holiday in Corfu. Unknown to...
Once Around the Island With Gay Talese The New York Times | ALTHOUGH I was born and reared on a resort island in southern New Jersey, I have never learned to swim, nor have I ever gone fishing - nor, since moving to Manhattan in the mid-1950s, had I ever ventured out to observe the city from the Circle Line...
Portrait of a Lady Irish Times 1234A taste of AmericaChina dollThrills and spills | FOURTH OF JULY: In 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardener, a Boston heiress and friend of Henry James, opened one of America's first private museums with an eclectic collection of art, furnishings and man...
ThreeSixty: Homeland memories linger after 61 years Star Tribune | In 1948, May Wigen Breivik worked five days a week at a travel agency in Stavanger, Norway. As she booked customers' trips to the United States, she never imagined that she would soon be one of those passengers sailing to a new life in America. | P...
Keep the Music, Add the Views The New York Times | LAST summer a sad but hopeful question made its way through Brooklyn: Where will the Pool Parties go? Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times | East River State Park, on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brookly...
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Destruction of the US economy: the nightmare scenario The Examiner | At the beginning of 2009, the economy was in trouble. President Obama initiated what many thought was a sweeping stimulus package that would save the economy. Though there were s...
Ships seek to recover remains of Air France jet Boston Herald | FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil — Military planes and ships from Brazil and France homed in Wednesday on the bobbing wreckage of an Air France jet, as investigators tried to de...
Commodities on a record rebound around the world The Australian | MANUFACTURERS worldwide preparing for an economic rebound are rebuilding inventories of everything from benzene to plywood, sparking a record-breaking commodities rally that has ...
Cops: Boater should have used marine radiop Newsday | When the 19-foot boat with seven aboard headed out of Port Jefferson Harbor for an afternoon fishing trip, the weather was fine. But conditions quickly worsened and the situation went downhill fast. | The boat took on water, drowning the batteries ...
Haughty Hamas Honcho Plays Pundit Wall Street Journal By JAMES TARANTO | Israel's Arutz Sheva reports that a notorious Arab terrorist is taking credit for Barack Obama's election as president: In a public address delivered on Al-Aqsa TV by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based terror boss info...
Opec, EU plot to avoid new oil bubble Business Report | Regulatory reforms urged to curb last year's price spiral | By Reuters Vienna | Oil markets risked another speculative bubble unless the financial sector was reformed and transparency increased, but prices were not yet a threat to economic recovery, the EU and Opec said after joint talks in Vienna yesterday. | US oil was trading at about $68 (R55...
Backup plan to get NASA to moon cheaper San Fransisco Chronicle | (07-05) 04:00 PDT Washington -- Like a car salesman pushing a luxury vehicle that the customer no longer can afford, NASA has pulled out of its back pocket a deal for a cheaper ride to the moon. | It won't be as powerful, and its design is a little dated. Think of it as a base-model Ford station wagon instead of a tricked-out Cadillac Escalade. |...
