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...though the fins are being fed to starving children. They're used in Asia for shark-fin soup, a delicacy that fetches up to $150 a bowl. The market for shark fins is incredibly profitable; U.S. fishermen earn as much as $25 per lb. for fins, compared with 50[cents] per lb. for shark meat. The trade has grown dramatically since commerce with China began expanding in the 1980s: some 125 nations are now involved...
...century's days are dwindling, and the only question is how to count them. (The question for entrepreneurs is how to make money from counting them.) The fin-de-siecle countdown is already ticking away, and cropping up around the world are timepieces great and small, digital and analog, useful and utterly useless. Warning: Some timepieces do not work after the first stroke...
...predictable ways when multiple zeros loom on the calendar. So if not plagued by incipient hype-induced ennui, how then should we be feeling as the 20th century winds down? "Convinced of exhaustion, extreme peril, exorbitant risk, explosive transformation." This is historian Hillel Schwartz's description of the fin-de-siecle mind-set in his definitive book Century's End. Schwartz was writing in 1988 and looking forward to a bang-up final decade. Indeed, the 1990s got off to a respectable fin-de-siecle start, what with the Gulf War and the fall of communism, the L.A. riots, even...
...while President Clinton's legacy as a complex, fin-de-siecle character seems assured, his status as Kennedyesque trendsetter remains in doubt. His fondness for the mystery novels of Walter Mosley may have briefly nudged the author of Devil in a Blue Dress onto the best-seller lists--but don't bother looking on the current network-TV schedule for any series by famous friend-of-Bill producers Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason (their most recent show, Woman of the House, was swiftly canceled in 1995). As for setting a sartorial agenda, fashion-industry sources say the President...
...Lacrosse Mgr., '94-present; Mission Hill After School Prog. Tutor; Kappa Alpha Theta Mbr., Purchase Fund Chr.; Work at Gov't Dpt. as Fin. Admin. Asst. & at Nat'l Bureau of Econ. Res. as Res./Adm. Asst.; Running, independently...