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...sensitive to ultraviolet radiation. Stronger sunlight, caused by depletion of the ozone layer, may be killing them. The situation may be exacerbated by the fact that cod don't start migrating until they reach about three years old, when they begin by following the mature adults. But, says Jake Rice, head of the Canadian government's Science Advisory Secretariat, "the severe overfishing of adults meant that there were no adults to learn from. The fish now probably don't know how to migrate." And there is another possible brake on cod recovery - seals, which...
...have other priorities that demand much more of our attention than just these children," he says. Bureaucratic inertia and a lack of funding?it costs $500 to bring a single parent from East Timor to Sumedang?all combine to hinder progress. "It's an agonizingly slow process," says Jake Moreland, a UNHCR spokesman in Dili, East Timor's capital. "And time is precious. The longer they are apart, the looser these children's links are with their parents...
...fish-out-of-water scenario. Blonde sent a Beverly Hills fashionista to Harvard Law School; Sweet sends Southern gal Melanie--who had fled to New York City, found success as a designer and landed the mayor's son as her fiance--back home to get a quick divorce from Jake (Josh Lucas), the boy she had loved, wed and left in rancor. But Jake is so steamed that he won't sign the papers. The whole town turns on Melanie for becoming a spoiled Yankee brat. And the mayor dispatches spies to learn her dirty white-trash secret...
...Jake Gyllenhaal has just those qualities, plus huge brown eyes and a fretful mouth, giving him the look of a spaniel afraid he's about to be swatted. He won kind notices in October Sky and The Good Girl, and now in Moonlight Mile he heads a cast that includes Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter. What's more, he is playing a young man who, after his fiance's death by gunfire, is living with her grieving parents (Hoffman and Sarandon). Can he carry all that freight...
...aftermath of death? Like In the Bedroom and the lesser-known The Son’s Room, both of which dealt with families trying to live with the death of their child, this film has been lauded on the film-festival circuit. It-boy and Columbia dropout Jake Gyllenhaal (The Good Girl, Lovely and Amazing) is Joe, a faithful surrogate son to his dead fiancee’s parents (Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon) who faces a dilemma when he falls for someone new. FYI: humor reputedly prevails over dramatic outbursts and stony silences...