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Conventional wisdom holds that any sane person, given the chance, would depart Cambridge as soon as possible for Cape Cod or Block Island or Newport or the Maine coast...
Though many of the world's fisheries are ostensibly managed on a sustainable basis, important species are in danger. Among them: bluefin tuna, cod and haddock in the Atlantic; certain varieties of grouper and snapper in the Gulf of Mexico; and sardines and anchovies in the Pacific. The United Nations and World Bank sponsored the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to sustain forests, but instead the plan spurred further deforestation. When asked by an environmentalist what he meant by sustainable, a World Bank agronomist replied, "Fifty years of timber production." Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest...
Right now, he plans on playing in the highly competitive Cape Cod League this summer...
During the legal wrangling, Baby Jessica has been growing up in the DeBoers' Cape Cod-style home, listening to bedtime stories and practicing words like Mommy and Daddy. The prospect that she might be legally taken from her home -- which even the Iowa courts considered "exemplary" -- has dumbfounded many Americans. But while the DeBoers have garnered the most sympathy, they also share part of the blame. Within weeks after they first tucked Jessica into her new nursery, Roberta and Jan learned that the biological parents were fighting to regain custody. By choosing to dig in even after the adoption proceedings...
...Cape Cod operation put me over-board," he said. "If it wasn't for that, I think I could have struggled through here very well, without Chapter...