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Consumers also can help save the seas--through the fish they buy. To that end, California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, along with the Blue Ocean Institute and the Environmental Defense Fund, is coming out with pocket guides to sustainable sushi. The groups base their ratings on the health of a wild fish's population (the popular bluefin tuna is restricted), along with the impacts of fish-farming operations. (Fast-growing oysters can be farmed sustainably, but salmon can't.) They also take into account fishing practices: catching bigeye tuna with thousand-hooked longlines can result in the unintended death...
...BASE to release new album in 2009, so enjoy the rest...
...state spending in order to offset the drop in business activity. But this time, the gigantic cost of bank bailouts will leave national treasuries with little room for maneuver. Indeed, the bailout plans - under which stricken banks will receive direct injections of taxpayer money to strengthen their capital base, while governments provide guarantees aimed at getting banks to lend to one another again - may well throw government finances seriously out of kilter...
...plans to get black voters to the polls, beyond one strategy it employed during several primaries: distributing flyers in salons and barbershops with large black clienteles. Rick Wade, the Obama campaign's senior adviser for black affairs, says simply, "African Americans are a crucial part of the Democratic base. They know what's at stake during the general election. We expect to see a tremendous turnout...
...crusader for social justice." But at the same time, Sharpton said, "You've got to use people that can draw a crowd. Otherwise, you're making this race a lot closer than it needs to be. You're not maximizing the enthusiasm of some of your base - which the right wing does well...