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...Riyadh, I eagerly bought the latest edition of TIME, attracted by the cover story "Saudi Women's Quiet Revolution" by Andrew Lee Butters [Oct. 19]. But when I settled down to read the story I found that it had been censored and pages 23-24 were removed. I went back to the store to see if I could find a copy with the full article but they were all similarly censored. I guess that the cover headline but too slowly for some is all too true here in Saudi Arabia. Name and address withheld...
...rows of small, unsold yellowfin that look, and smell, like they have seen better days. After the good ones go early in the morning, thousands of fish like these are left over, caught too young to have been given a chance to spawn and too far away to get back to dock in time to sell for a good price. To Heitz, it's obvious they're from Indonesia - and most likely have been caught without a permit - but there is nobody here from the government fisheries department to verify that. There almost never is. "All these bad fish kind...
...problem, or part of the solution." Heitz wants to be on the solution side. Once, when he was scuba-diving off General Santos' coast, two yellowfin torpedoed past. "It was like a motorcycle was going by," he says, crouching slightly, staring straight ahead and moving his shoulders back and forth to mimic the fish's muscular energy. "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it." Unless something changes, he may never see its like again...
...Have My Ring Back...
Luckily, Wilson still had some of that Forstmann Little cash lying around. He called an old Citadel hand, the fortunately named Bob Proffitt, and found a local private-equity firm, Endeavour Capital, that was willing to back Wilson's new venture, Alpha Broadcasting. It paid $11 million for Paul Allen's Portland stations--Allen bought them for about $50 million. Experts say the price premium for radio stations has fallen from 20 times earnings to eight times...