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...Hummers filled with stern-faced soldiers and .50 caliber machine guns is not the post-card image tourists seek, nor a perception easily changed -unless of course you live in Rosarito. "The military has really made a huge difference," said Kanoa Biondolillo, co-owner of Baja123 real estate. "There's been a huge drop in local extortion, you don't have to bribe the police anymore if they stop you. I've never felt safer...
Well, fortunately, I don't think that misconception has led people to do the same thing with killer whales that they do with sharks. They don't go out just to kill them. There are a lot of people who kill sharks for this huge shark fin industry. There's between a hundred million and two hundred million sharks that have been slaughtered for their fins while the carcasses of the bleeding sharks are dumped overboard. We're really very poor managers of our environment. (See the top animal stories of the past year...
...Class Marshals to address the Law School’s graduating J.D. students on June 3. “It was an obvious choice for us,” said Class Marshal and third year Law School student Bridgette L. Hylton. “She has had such a huge impact on the Law School, and we felt it was a nice way to wrap up our time here.” In some circles, Kagan is considered one of the most influential law school deans in recent memory. Upon her departure for the Solicitor General’s office...
...don’t realize how you’re limited until you stop playing a sport,” she says. “The opportunity costs are huge...
China's rapidly growing Navy today patrols the Gulf of Aden, helping to protect Chinese commercial ships from piracy. It has eight new kilo class submarines - whose silence underwater makes them difficult to detect. Many of them are housed at a huge, new Naval base on the tropical island of Hainan, the "Hawaii" of China. Just last week, Admiral Wu Shengli, China's top naval officer, said his country needed to acquire more high tech weaponry in "order to boost the ability to fight in regional sea wars." Toward that end, many military analysts believe, China will soon build...