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...Worrying Trend The world's tuna trade is an awesome 21st century hunt. Ancient Greeks used to stand on bluffs to watch for schools of tuna passing the shore. Today, fishing fleets stalk the fish across thousands of miles of ocean with helicopters, GPS and sonar. In 1950, about 600,000 tons of tuna were caught worldwide. Last year, that figure hit nearly 6 million tons, the prize of a chase that plays out from the Philippines to Canada's Prince Edward Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting for Tuna: The Environmental Peril Grows | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Gelato is the ultimate refinement of a Mediterranean flavored-ice tradition that supposedly dates back to the ancient Egyptians. In the past half-century, Italians have designed machines - engineered and produced in the same region as Ferraris and Lamborghinis - that can produce ever tinier crystals of ice, allowing for less water, less air and more taste. (See pictures of Gelato University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato U. | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Saturday’s 2-1 win against Columbia (7-7-3, 3-3-1 Ivy), the Crimson’s last match of the regular season, was far from a final formality, but rather redemption after sharing the Ancient Eight title last year...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alone at the Top | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson, winning its ninth Ancient Eight title solidified its place as the premier team in the Ivy League, despite a rough pre-season where Harvard only won one game out of eight...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alone at the Top | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and some other schools...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 11/7/2009 | See Source »

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