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...study needs to be done by rovers and drill-equipped landers. Still, the scientists say, they're optimistic that the "ice signature" detected by Odyssey's instruments is just the tip of a Martian iceberg. EUROPEAN UNION Save Our Soles The E.U. considered a proposal to cut its fishing fleet drastically in an effort to protect fast-declining fish stocks. Some countries' fleets could be reduced by up to 60% over four years, mainly in northern European countries. But Spain, which has the biggest European fleet - 20,000 vessels - and receives the largest part of the annual $555 million...
...organisms. But last week the European Commission made proposals to tackle an equally serious yet far more contentious issue: the decades of overfishing that have decimated fish stocks in European waters. The Commission's plan, put forward by fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler, calls for dramatic cuts in commercial fishing fleets and the diversion of some $430 million that's currently used to subsidize the modernization of the E.U. fishing fleet into retraining programs to help fishermen find other jobs. All European Union countries would be affected, but those with the biggest fishing industries would be hit hardest. Even countries that...
TRADING PLACES Bertelsmann wants to turn Napster into a for-pay service (having bought it for $8 million last week), but the free-music file-sharing revolution Napster launched is still going strong, thanks to a fleet of wannabes. Here, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, are the top five (by unique users...
...into bankruptcy. Ogami has yet to be arrested but the investigation continues; the onetime self-promoter now is unavailable for interviews. Associates, including Inoue, claim Ogami still hides a personal net worth of at least $5 million, but the company's known assets?including real estate and Ogami's fleet of cars?have been seized. All that's left at G.O. Group's Tokyo headquarters is a mountain of discarded telephones stacked by the glass doors...
...goods of all kinds flood in, incomes are rising to pay for them. In 1998 Yusef, a Baghdad resident, drove a broken-down taxi and lived in a house that was bare after he sold the furniture to support his five children. Today Yusef is a partner in a fleet of GMC vans that carry people and merchandise to Amman, Damascus and Beirut. "Life is so much better," he says. "We have some money, we have a good house, my children are healthy...