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...half the skipjack caught each year come from the waters in the western and central Pacific, and while skipjack in the region are officially plentiful, according to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that keeps track of them, talk to anyone in General Santos and you'll hear otherwise. Supplies of fresh, local skipjack dropped 50% last year, says Miguel Lamberte, the port's manager. This August, the amount of both frozen and fresh skipjack being unloaded was at an all-time low, he says. "And it's still going down...
Your article concluded that as women's power and wealth start to surpass men's, men and women increasingly share the same interests and concerns. But that has not been my experience. Working in a female-dominated profession, I repeatedly hear women express frustration that there don't seem to be many real men anymore. Men express confusion that their efforts not to be domineering leave them disdained by those women. The irony is that many men today try to be the sensitive, nonabrasive types that the women's movement said women would want. But in fact, many women...
...hear that you are a foreign-language buff. How many languages do you speak...
...only the military's best guess, since just 4,000 troops have declared their faith in their service records. By all accounts, the percentage of Muslims who are outstanding, competent or misfit soldiers is proportional to that of every other ethnic group. But that logic is increasingly hard to hear in the aftermath of Major Nidal Hasan's killing spree at Fort Hood in Texas...
...That could take a while, but it is what investors need to hear and, as some economists are warning, will also need to see put into practice if the country is to attract badly needed foreign capital. In the meantime, Anggodo Widjojo, a businessman and one of the men caught on tape conspiring with legal authorities to set up the KPK, has yet to be charged. "Why hasn't Anggodo been arrested?" asks Yanuar Rizky, an independent analyst and columnist writing on economic issues. "It looks as if you have to be close to the powers that be in Indonesia...