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...Somali coast, often illegally and without licenses, for the better part of two decades, the U.N. says. They often fly flags of convenience from sea-faring friendly nations like Belize and Bahrain, which further helps the ships skirt international regulations and evade censure from their home countries. Tsuma Charo of the Nairobi-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, which monitors Somali pirate attacks and liaises with the hostage takers and the captured crews, says "illegal trawling has fed the piracy problem." In the early days of Somali piracy, those who seized trawlers without licenses could count on a quick ransom...
...noted that was a savvy show to pitch to Zucker, who used to run "Today." Media office sitcoms are well-worn NBC territory, but will it be "NewsRadio" or "Suddenly Susan"? The clips weren't exactly uproarious; most noteworthy were two cartoonish characters, a bimboish Hispanic host with a Charo accent and an inept weathercaster who also happens to be a nun. So we're going after the Latinos and the Catholics in the pilot - oh, they'll love it in Miami! (In other sitcom news, NBC has finally given up on introducing new comedies after "Friends," so in place...
Note to Madonna, Britney, J. Lo and all blondishly tressed, rump-wiggling, belly-baring singer- dancers: give it up. You are pale imitations. CHARO is back! And better than ever, especially now that stretch fabrics have been mainstreamed. The campy sensation of '70s and early '80s TV is both star and co-producer of Bravo, her own show in Las Vegas, featuring flamenco, merengue, salsa and plenty of clean "cuchi-cuchi" for the entire family. Asked if she was sick of her signature phrase, she burbled, "Are you kidding? Cuchi-cuchi has shown me the way to the bank...
...this research ethical? Is it moral? Thomson, a nonpracticing Congregationalist who is married to a fellow scientist and is the father of two young children, wasn't sure. He read every study he could get his hands on and consulted, among others, University of Wisconsin bioethicists R. Alta Charo and Norman Fost. Since the embryos he planned to use were doomed anyway--one of the arguments cited by Bush--he decided he was justified by the good that might come of the research. "I could not see that throwing them out was better," he says...
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