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...Worrying Trend The world's tuna trade is an awesome 21st century hunt. Ancient Greeks used to stand on bluffs to watch for schools of tuna passing the shore. Today, fishing fleets stalk the fish across thousands of miles of ocean with helicopters, GPS and sonar. In 1950, about 600,000 tons of tuna were caught worldwide. Last year, that figure hit nearly 6 million tons, the prize of a chase that plays out from the Philippines to Canada's Prince Edward Island...
...Please don't try to change the policy of providing trays for students,” one survey-answerer wrote. “Or I will hunt you down...
Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it's not all that surprising that little has been done for the past two years to hunt down those responsible for the ethnic violence that wracked the country following the December 2007 presidential election, killing 1,100 people. In fact, Kenya's leaders have spent more time in recent months discussing whether they should comply with orders to turn in their gas-guzzling government-issued Mercedes Benzes for more fuel-efficient Volkswagen Passats and the shocking - by Kenyan standards - news that two Kenyan...
...beginning to show - not in his overall policy, which represents the views of a broad, moderate national-security consensus ranging from Brent Scowcroft to John Kerry, but in his execution of the details. The Afghan strategy review has been too public and taken too long; the Middle East peace hunt has become a wild goose chase. A letter to Iran's Supreme Leader is a productive gesture only if it gets a response; if it doesn't, it seems weak and supplicatory. A call for the Israelis to freeze settlements is effective only if it is accompanied by the credible...
...game sets Harvard back in the ECAC hunt, but the team is confident that it can overcome the early loss and right the ship against conference opponents...