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...that current subsidies for high-sea bottom-trawling amount to just over $150 million, a small fraction of the $30 billion that governments spend yearly to prop up a global fishing industry that produces twice as much as is sustainable. "It's important to nip these subsidies in the bud before more interests get barnacled around them," says University of British Columbia's Rashid Sumaila, who has advised the World Trade Organization on the issue. "Eliminating them would render these fleets economically unviable and would relieve tremendous pressure on over-fishing and vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems...
...over the process of buying a Twinkie. He compares it to trying to buy a pack of condoms: both involve the characteristic guilty body language, the overt attempts at subtlety, and the cashier’s tendency to nip the purchaser’s unobtrusiveness in the bud. A few scenes later, Jon’s best friend reveals that he is seriously ill, and Jon blanches, tears in his eyes. From “Sugar” to shock, “tick, tick…BOOM!,” which runs through Dec. 16 in the Adams House...
...prove, that he might be the greatest hitter of all time, in spite of the steroid allegations. And that he's made more than enough money to pay his legal bills. No, Bonds knows that if he just stepped aside and fought his trial, too many people, like commissioner Bud Selig, would rejoice. So he'll try to stay...
...taste them to know how much they are valued. At Happy Valley tea estate, perched at 6,800 ft. (2,100 m) where the Himalayas snake into India between Nepal and Bhutan, workers harvest the autumn flush, plucking each tip of dwi paat suiro--two leaves and a bud--as if it were worth its weight in gold. As the sun sets on the looming Mount Kanchenjunga and a lazy mist begins to settle, pickers carefully empty their bamboo baskets and take in their loads to be weighed. One man swiftly but keenly examines the leaves before each worker signs...
...Minus a smoking gun, A-Rod shouldn't expect much help from the arbitrators. Back in the 1980s, the evidence was stark. The arbitrator found, for example, that the American League president and two owners - Jerry Reinsdorf, who still controls the Chicago White Sox, and one Bud Selig, then owner of the Milwaukee Brewers - called the president of the Philadelphia Phillies to dissuade him from signing Lance Parrish, a free agent catcher from the Detroit Tigers...