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...installing the devices at the exit gates of the nation's major seaports and at key traffic choke points, such as international bridges, tunnels, rail crossings and U.S. Postal and private parcel-shipping facilities. One prototype has already been deployed at a busy commercial crossing along the U.S.-Canadian border. More will follow--but to foil terrorists, Customs isn't advertising where or when. And no photos are permitted. --By Elaine Shannon
...harvested from the age of one, which leaves fewer and fewer fish of reproductive age. Whenever collapsing cod stocks are mentioned, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are held up as a grim example of what can happen if things are left until too late. Canadian scientists watched stocks dwindle through the late 1980s, but failed to persuade the government to act. So when fishing was finally banned in 1992, the fishery stood at 1% to 3% of its historic levels. Even today the fish have not returned. In the mid-1980s, the fishery produced over 200,000 tons a year...
Through change, there is continuity. From patrician New Yorker and future U.S. president to Chinese-speaking gay redneck Canadian computer geek to Indian-Muslim-Texan football player dating a Korean to Israeli resident of Newton concentrating in East Asian studies, one thing thankfully remains constant: the Asian fetish...
...goes without saying, for instance, that the gradual disappearance of the spotted owl in Canada will probably not make headlines in Canadian newspapers, and certainly won’t be a priority for American media outlets. Nevertheless, the slow extinction of the spotted owl symbolizes the waning of serious efforts to preserve our environment...
Fortunately, Park Service biologists are still tracking the remaining populations in the park; their Canadian counterparts have resorted to managing the handful of remaining birds. Last fall, scientists in British Columbia moved what is believed to be the only surviving Canadian chick from this year’s brood into a protected enclosure in hopes of sheltering and raising it until it can be released. The chick is literally the last of the spotted owls in Canada...