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...Thanks to the world's insatiable taste for sushi, breeding stocks of bluefin tuna have declined 80% over the past 50 years, with the steepest drop occurring in the last decade. And with tuna caught in the Mediterranean (where Atlantic bluefin go to spawn) wholesaling for $50 per kilo (one 500-plus-lb. monster recently fetched $175,000) in Tokyo, the fishing industry has shown its own ravenous appetite for the fish...
...tiny principality of Monaco drafted a proposal to include the fish on CITES Appendix 1. The appendix, which bans trade in endangered species, has - with the exception of certain whales and dolphins - historically excluded marine life, and Japan, which consumes about 80% of the 60,000 tons of bluefin caught each year, promised to vote against any ban. But momentum in favor of Monaco's proposal appeared to be growing, especially when the Obama Administration lent its support on March 3, followed a week later by the European Parliament and Norway, another major fishing country. (See the top 10 most...
...Wallace forever struggling to reconcile his child-like sense of wonder at what he is seeing with the stiff-upper-lip expectations of his Victorian audience. Perhaps this conflict is best captured by his account of a previous expedition that ended disastrously when his ship home from Brazil caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic, leaving Wallace and ship's crew adrift in an open boat for ten days until rescue arrived. "During the night I saw several meteors, and in fact could not be in a better position for observing them, than lying on my back...
Then there are the scandals, and the last few seasons' have been turbocharged doozies. First, in 2007, McLaren was fined $100 million after an engineer was caught with documents supplied by a rogue Ferrari employee. Then, last September, one of F1's most flamboyant team managers, Renault's Flavio Briatore, was barred from the sport for life after the FIA determined that he had ordered one of his drivers to crash in a 2008 race to help out Renault's other driver - Alonso, in this case. Briatore is still fighting the ban. (In January, a French court overturned...
...prepared for St. John’s to be playing as well as they did,” Omodele-Lucien said. “Last time we played them, it was a little easier. So, we started on our heels, which is always the wrong thing to do. They caught a lot of us off guard...