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...when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a surprising--and controversial--ruling permitting aquaculture facilities to raise and sell beluga meat and eggs. The environmental group Caviar Emptor had long been pushing for an outright ban on trade in the beluga, arguing that the species' Caspian population has fallen 90% and might soon be extinct. "This is a grievous mistake," says Ellen Pikitch, one of Caviar Emptor's founders and director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science. "The beluga is the most valuable fish in the world, and when a fish reaches that level of value...
...itself in the fourth position following the first 500 meters of the grand finals, with Princeton leading and Cal and Virginia close behind, separated from each other by two seats. Less than that distanced them from the Black and White. By the next 500-meter mark, the Cavaliers had fallen off pace and were passed by Radcliffe, which built a two-seat advantage...
...think about it-is bats. Those furry, whirry creatures traumatized little Bruce Wayne when he was a kid. He has other, more guilt-edged issues, involving his saintly parents, as well. When we first meet Bruce (Christian Bale) as a grownup, he has traveled far (to Asia) and fallen low (a Chinese prison) in an attempt to restore wellness to his troubled soul. Specifically, he joins up with a bunch of muscular moralists known as the League of Shadows, whose leader (Liam Neeson in a really distracting mustache) imparts to him the will and skill to face his demons...
...divvy up power with the Syrians gone. Nobody is talking yet about the most contentious issues facing the new parliament: how to disarm Hizballah, the militant Shi'ite group, and reconfigure the 1943 power-sharing agreement known as the National Pact. The task of uniting the country has fallen to Saad, a shy Georgetown University graduate who makes no secret that he would rather be scuba diving or riding his Harley. "Watch me," he told TIME in a recent interview at the wood-paneled fourth-floor office where his father used to hold court. "My father didn't want...
...they're getting to keep moving. According to surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of sedentary men age 70 and older has dropped over the past 15 years from 40% to 30%, while the number of sedentary women 70 years and older has fallen from nearly...