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Sunken vessels can also trail deadly debris. Fishing boats, for example, which are stocked with nets and traps, often continue to "ghost fish" after the ship itself has been abandoned. The biggest man-made threat to the endangered monk seal of Hawaii is entanglement in derelict fishing gear, according to Keith Criddle, a marine-policy professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Off North Carolina's coast, ghost crab pots continue to trap and kill diamondback terrapin turtles. In a 2004 report titled An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy found that...
Martirosov said Goldin “smashed the glass real good”—glass shards were strewn about the car and got stuck in the gear shift, preventing him from shifting gears and driving...
Away from the lights of TV news cameras and the keyboards of bloggers, stand-ins have been holding secretive mock debates with the candidates to help them gear up for the real thing...
...mostly positive assessment of the event. The Convention, which took place in Denver’s Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High, gave the Democrats the opportunity to come together and make a strong case for Barack Obama as the general presidential election kicks into high gear. Jarret A. Zafran '09, president of the Harvard College Democrats and a Crimson editorial writer, said he enjoyed the variety of panels and events, including a panel on poverty that featured Ben Affleck and Madeleine Albright. But for Zafran, attending Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday night...
...news! A small group of self-proclaimed anarchists, calling themselves Funk the War, peeled away from a peaceful protest on the streets of St. Paul and erupted into violence. They pounded cars, smashed windows, hurled bottles and pushed a flaming garbage bin into a police car. Police in riot gear broke up the melee with tear gas and arrested as many as 100 people...