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...Economics: An Oxymoron?” they all agreed that it is possible to combine the study of law and economics with progressive values but warned that those who do will be so out of place in their environment that they will standout like “flying fish...
...feel a bit like a Viking yourself. Shetland is one of the best places in the world to see an abundance of seals and otters, and you can view them at an astonishingly close range. The latter, especially, thrive in waters off the barren coastline, which is rich in fish. A cloudy day is one of the best times to go otter watching...
Driving back with Lowrie from his crofts (small farms) after feeding the sheep and collecting the goose eggs, we stopped and looked in on Binnie, Lowrie's elderly distant cousin. I chatted with Binnie while Lowrie stood on a ladder and poked around in the attic, checking on the fish he was salting and drying. Shetlanders have a very cozy way of looking out for others: dropping in on a neighbor, tending someone's land and sharing resources. "At this time of year, when you have to take off sheep, you pass some of them to others who may need...
...homemade contraption?planks of wood nailed together, no motor?but after half an hour's paddling through the surf, Makhan managed to get us to the island. He and Probas kept us alive over the next week, supplying us with freshly caught fish and ferrying us back and forth to Meena Stores for shopping expeditions. The island was better than anything we had hoped for on Smith. We lived simply, sleeping in a tent, eating out of bowls fashioned from halved coconut shells and learning?the hard way?to gut, clean and scale fish that we then roasted over...
...islands are in fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea anemones, snapper and brightly colored parrot fish?and also encounter larger visitors from deeper waters, like blue and sperm whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and marine turtles. The area is a favored haunt of the endangered dugong, a cousin of the manatee, that feeds in the sea grasses of the shallow coastal...