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It was the most dangerous thing Chen Canting had done in his life. But as he crouched in a small fishing boat in the south China province of Fujian, he had no idea just how perilous. A dozen others huddled in the boat. Some of their faces were familiar, but...
Subtlety was not this girl’s specialty—no one was surprised to hear that within five minutes of meeting her roommate for this overnight conference that the differently attired girl had announced, “I’m having sex tonight!” What...
Palauans have always lived from the sea, but it was not until the mid-'80s that overfishing became a problem. After a half-century as a U.S. trust territory, Palau was preparing for independence in 1994--and promoting commercial fishing for export as a way of earning a living on...
Idechong's work culminated in the Marine Protection Act of 1994, which banned export of certain species and regulated the fishing for others. "The law went into effect just in time," says Idechong, who drafted it in 1990 but had to wait four years for the political leadership to approve...
Raised in Ngiwal, a fishing village on Palau's largest island, Babeldaob, Idechong had his eyes opened to nature's riches only when he left for a year of high school in the U.S. in 1970. He spent that period amid the lakes and forests around Pine City, Minnesota--"one...