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...countries, the United Nations General Assembly agreed in December 2006 to a new regulatory regime for high-seas fisheries - but Japan, Russia, Iceland and Canada objected to a complete moratorium on unregulated bottom trawling. If enforced, the U.N.'s compromise resolution would require fishing nations to conduct environmental impact assessments demonstrating that their fishing is not harmful - that could spell the end of deep-sea bottom trawling, which accounts for 80% of all deep-sea catches. But it's a fate that some countries are willing to face. New Zealand's fishing industry - long a poster child for everything that...
...nominate Steve Jobs of Apple for Person of the Year. He is a true visionary who continues to lead the technological revolution. Year after year, Apple creates must-have products that shape how we live our lives. The iPod and iTunes have clearly had a legendary impact, and the iPhone is this year's best gadget by far. Jobs and Apple continue to lead us into a wonderful, new technological future...
...Gardner’s talk about ethics is going to impact how I teach my media class,” she said. “I liked Gardner’s idea of new media as a frontier, and how we need to establish rules for it. That’s a subject on which I have to help my students...
...Giuliani, McCain and Romney, all of whom to varying degrees once backed that approach, have recalibrated their positions so that they share the public's desire to secure the borders before granting aliens any legal rights to put down roots. The party's nativist temptation is already having an impact: almost 6 out of every 10 Hispanic voters now call themselves Democrats or lean that way, according to a new Pew Center study - a shift of 13 points in party ID in the past year alone...
...News and World Report with data. Of course, much of the data used in the rankings is publicly available whether the University likes it or not. But even if Harvard can’t stop its name from appearing on the list, a symbolic boycott could have an enormous impact on the way people think about the rankings. Yet while U.S. News and World Report certainly doesn’t provide helpful information to College-bound students, neither would Harvard’s decision to boycott the list. Consequently, the most important contribution Harvard could make to the college admissions...