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That's not just academic information. For as the seals and other marine mammals go, so goes the whole Bering Sea ecosystem. Spanning the oceanic divide between the U.S. and Russia, it is one of the richest and most commercially productive marine environments on earth, teeming with pollack and halibut, fur seals and Steller's sea lions, horn puffins and murres. The seals and seabirds depend on catching fish, and so do humans. More than 2,000 boats from the U.S., Russia, Japan, Norway, China, Poland and the Koreas haul in an annual catch worth roughly $1 billion. The portion...
...number of years we spend on this earth that counts. It's what we do while we are here that really matters. Though they died young, their lives were complete. BARBARA MURTAGH Dublin...
...indeed a well-known fact that Cornel West is one of the best communicators on earth," said April Yvonne Garrett, a former student. "As a student, I always felt like my brain was being fed the finest information in the universe. I was always amazed that he could communicate the most difficult concepts so that the average person could understand them and apply them," she said...
Puny humans felt a collective shiver across Europe and Asia Wednesday as nature served notice of its potency. For two dark, cool and eerie daytime minutes, the sun was a black hole in the sky as the moon shuttered parts of the earth from its rays. And hundreds of millions of people from England to India dropped everything to behold the power -? most evident by its absence -? of the star?s light. Even as thick cloud obscured many in Britain and Western Europe from a clear view of the last solar eclipse of the millennium, the masses crowding beaches, city...
Some 117 million miles from Earth last week, a small, unmanned ship named Deep Space 1 swooped to within 10 miles of newly named asteroid Braille. The dramatic encounter marked by far the closest approach ever to an asteroid by a spacecraft and helped validate new and previously untried systems for unmanned spaceflight...