Word: hunts
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...pursue and trap these sociable, intelligent cetaceans? The dolphins are merely a fisherman's convenience. A few feet beneath them swims the real object of the hunt: a huge school of yellowfin tuna, which for reasons that baffle scientists often congregate below pods of dolphins. More than 90% of the yellowfin caught by the U.S. tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they...
...than 40 stories in the past two years about pollution issues surrounding the state's powerful oil industry. Meanwhile Weaver has run a poignant series on the survival struggle by the state's Eskimos and launched a folk-adventure column that recently took readers on an open-boat whale hunt. Then last week he dropped a fresh bomb with a front-page scoop about MarkAir, an Anchorage-based airline. According to the News, the U.S. State Department paid Mark-Air to fly supplies to a Nicaraguan contra base in Honduras...
...others: James Henry Lane of Kansas, 1866; Frank Brandegee of Connecticut, 1924; and Lester Hunt of Wyoming...
...high-rise standards, it is dinky, a dozen stories from head to toe. And by the standards of statuary, Lady Liberty is absurdly huge, unnecessarily literal, a giant trinket as vulgar as a sign on the Las Vegas strip. It is hardly an ancient monument. Except for Richard Morris Hunt's pedestal, the thing was not even Made in America. (Perfect protectionist irony: an imported patriotic icon...
According to University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, the two other 350th convocations, which will be delivered on September 4 and September 6, have been completely organized. Prince Charles will star on September 4 in the convocation entitled "Harvard and its Origins," and President Bok will lead off Saturday's festivities with a talk entitled "Harvard and its Family." All three convocations, the mainstay of the 350th celebration, will be held in Tercentenary Theater...