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...cost, the sustainability of resources - pelagic fisheries - and human health concerns have been driving researchers to find replacements for fishmeal and fish oil - and we are doing this to the greatest extent possible," says Dr. David Higgs, a fish nutritionist for the Canadian government who works closely with British Columbia's $450 million salmon industry. (Reducing the fish content in feed also reduces the accumulation of PCBs in farmed fish, though Higgs insists that PCB levels in fish from British Columbia are some 50 to 70 times below FDA standards.) But such improvements have been offset by the industry...
...feeding several times more fishmeal to get one pound back would seem sheer folly. "Ultimately that is really where the solution is - to cut back on these carnivorous species and turn our attention to these plant-eating ones," says U. Rashid Sumaila, a bioeconomist at the University of British Columbia (UBC). "Whether we are willing to do that is another thing, but that's the fundamental solution...
...three days, Chijoff-Evans doubted himself. “I thought it was a bad idea to play doubles immediately before singles,” Chijoff-Evans said, referring to the doubles bracket championship he played with senior co-captain Dan Nguyen just before, losing to a duo from Columbia, 9-7. “I had lots of blisters, and I thought it was going to tighten me up. But the result was to the contrary.” Chijoff-Evans cruised past Western Michigan’s Michael Calderone, 6-3, 6-1, earning the championship...
...seemed very comfortable out there, and she played very consistently.” Harvard will need all the consistency it can muster this coming weekend, as it heads to Princeton to play in a tournament featuring the rival Tigers as well as Ivy League foes Columbia and Yale. Down the road, on Oct. 6 and 7, comes the all-important ECAC Championship. —Staff writer Jonathan B. Steinman can be reached at steinman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Fukuda, a safe if dull choice who wouldn't hurt the LDP, as Abe, who led the party to an historic electoral defeat at the end of July, so clearly had. "This is a self-preservation move for the party," says Carol Gluck, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University. "This is seen in the party as a safer choice for regrouping the LDP." Even Fukuda himself seemed to recognize that he was parachuting into a caretaker role. "Our party faces an emergency," he told LDP members gathered at the party's Tokyo headquarters on Sept. 15. "I will...