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More than 30 Gloucester skippers and their crews have been unable to work since early July. Dozens more, perhaps as much as a third of Gloucester's 160-boat commercial fishing fleet, once one of the nation's primary providers of fresh fish, could find themselves idle before summer gives way to fall...
...Baseball SportsBlogs Nation sbnation.com Home base for nearly two-dozen baseball blogs, most of them devoted to specific teams. There's Lookout Landing (for Seattle Mariners fans), Fish Stripes (about the Florida Marlins) and Amazin' Avenue (Mets), as well as the terrific Beyond the Box Score and John Sickel's Minor League Ball. And each one has a diary where readers can chime in-a feature SportsBlogs Nation co-founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga ported over from his popular (leftie) political blog, Daily Kos. If you blog about a team not yet represented here, make yourself known-score a spot...
...They've never eaten better. They've never been treated better." DAVID DUNCAN, U.S. Republican Congressman, displaying a tray of lemon-baked fish and oven-fried chicken, which he said was reflective of the menu at Guantánamo...
...Chinese acid rain, which poisons a quarter of the Chinese landmass. Toxic dust from Chinese sandstorms, the result of grassland erosion and logging that have helped turn 27% of the country into desert, travels as far as U.S. shores, obscuring visibility in national parks and raising mercury levels in fish. Although the U.S. still produces far more greenhouse gases, particularly in per capita terms, China is the world's second largest polluter. A U.N. report found that emissions from China nearly doubled from 1994 to 2002. "In the next 10 years the problem will become even more serious," predicts...
...vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders met with peasants in the prosperous village of Chezhou and found many unwilling to sacrifice their homes to the waters behind a proposed dam. "We eat fish, chicken and pork," an old woman told them, indicating her good fortune. "We don't want to move...