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...which can eat up to 7 kg of the fish a day. Bowing to international pressure, the Canadian government virtually banned seal culling - which was aimed at reducing numbers and hence their impact on fish stocks - in the 1980s. From under 2 million in the 1970s, the Canadian seal herd has today risen to over 5 million. In the waters around Britain, the gray seal population has risen from fewer than 45,000 in 1984 to over 124,000 in 2000. "Though the seals could never have reduced the cod population from the high abundance it once had," says Rice...
...discoveries. Hillman Farm Goat Cheese is made by Carolyn Hillman, an artist, and her husband, the town fix-it-all, in a small town in western Massachusetts. “They’re wonderful,” Gurdal says. “Together, they tend to their herd of 60 goats and two pet oxen. Their raw milk tomme is aged eight months and is one of the best out there...
...like his farmland-brown and a little bit broken. "I don't know how we're going to make it," the farmer says as he looks at some of his cows huddling under a bridge to escape the burning sun. Gillen, 66, has only 20 cows left from a herd of 450. After three years of drought in southwestern Colorado, Gillen's fields are parched, his irrigation water is spent, and he has been selling off land and livestock to cover debts. His banker keeps telling him that he should find some other line of work, that farming these days...
...July, sold out its first shipment of over 1,000 pairs in just two weeks. Zarina Kitchell, divisional merchandise manager of Joyce Boutique, which has outlets in China and Taiwan as well as Hong Kong, says the popularity of the boots reflects a yearning to stand out from the herd: 'Customers look for something new. The hip ones want something other than just a regular pair of boots.' The trend is more rooted in Italy than Arizona. According to Shanghai Tang's international marketing manager Joanne Ooi, buckskin, fringes and cowboy boots are the latest twist on the 'motorcycle chic...
...followed by individual shouts of "chalk" and "flour." Moments later a triumphant "on on!" rings out, a bugle sounds the battle charge, and the runners, dripping with sweat, burst from the underbrush. Casually slinging quips, jokes and benign insults with the easy camaraderie of old acquaintances, the 30-large herd mills around a clearing, in search of the next sign marked by chalk or flour to show where...