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...Trouble with Tuna Re "A Tough Catch" [Nov. 9]: for thousands of years, we human beings have hunted various types of tuna. But, with our study in science and technology advancing so fast, more and more wildlife are becoming endangered or extinct. In the movie Hellboy II: The Golden Army there is mention of a myth that gods created humans in their likeness, the only difference being that man has a hole in the heart that can never be filled in. I strongly believe that we have such a hole. This hole allows humans to compete for resources, to hunt...
...seedy underbelly of the Internet. It's a hamlet where the sun always shines, crops always grow and your friends drop by to do chores accompanied by plinky guitar music. Its astonishing popularity is a testament to the potential of gaming on social networks. Social games promise the golden pork-chop combo of the addictiveness of computer games with the communality of Facebook and MySpace. And they generate some of their revenue from product come-ons, which is where Michelle--and FarmVille's owners--has run into trouble...
...Saparmurat Niyazov, who christened himself Turkmenbashi, leader of all Turkmen, and fostered a bizarre personality cult in the country. During his 16-year reign, he renamed the months after himself and his mother, required that all children read his philosophical tome Ruhnama and filled the country with impressive golden statues of himself. Economically, mostly Muslim Turkmenistan remained heavily dependent on its gas sales to Russia, its main source of income...
...rest of the world, the dispute presented a golden opportunity. The Middle East didn't waste time, stepping in with loans and development projects - or as one Western observer put it, "a rain of dollars." In June, the Islamic Development Bank - a lender in which Saudi Arabia, Libya and Iran hold the three largest stakes - agreed to build a railroad connecting Turkmenistan and Iran, the first direct rail link between the Islamic Republic and Central Asia. "As of today, our relations with the Islamic bank have really been activated," Tuvakmammed Japarov, the country's deputy prime minister for the economy...
...measures. Its Board of Regents recognizes this inconvenient truth and has resorted to increasing tuition costs by an additional $2,500 for the next academic year, a proportional increase of about a third for in-state students. This is an unsavory solution to an unavoidable problem—the Golden State faces empty coffers and a projected deficit in the tens of billions and must make cuts across the board to stay afloat. However, while some tuition increases might be necessary, the in-state students of the University of California system should be the last to suffer. They are members...