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...Even so, the fishing companies know better than anyone that the only way to save the business is to save the species. The Spanish company has invested in the global quest to get bluefin to reproduce and grow in captivity - a task that has eluded all but a few scientists. In a trial run by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, scientists funded by Ricardo Fuentes have injected Atlantic bluefin females with synthetic hormones to trigger the fish's egg-laying response. This year, the team helped create some 150 million bluefin eggs, of which they took about 3 million...
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...reason to be cautious. Players from the pro leagues on down to high schools have contracted the virus. And to be fair, the clean-mitts camp has pushed for alternative gestures of good grace like fist-bumping or nodding at foes while saying, "Nice game." (See how not to get the H1N1...
...hours? "The real-world value of skipping this tradition is negligible," says Tom Fekete, chief of infectious diseases at Temple University School of Medicine. Even the head of emergency preparedness for the Vancouver games, virus expert Dr. Bonnie Henry, thinks a handshake moratorium is excessive. (Can these Canucks get on the same page? "Tell Dr. McCormack to call me," Henry says with a laugh...
...city where 47% of adults are functionally illiterate and only 25% of high school freshmen make it to graduation, U of D is the chute through which bright young men can get to college. The school boasts a near perfect graduation rate and sends 99% of its graduates on to higher education. (In 2009 the one student who didn't go to college turned down a scholarship from the University of Michigan to sign a seven-figure contract with the Detroit Tigers.) (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...