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FROM 1979 TO 1986 I WORKED AS A NATUralist guide in the Galapagos Islands. Back in the old days, lobster was plentiful, and we could snorkel at night to provide people with the delicacy for lunch or dinner. Sea cucumbers were not harvested but merely pointed out to underwater enthusiasts as part of the unique marine world of the islands. The 16 species of shark were regarded with passing awe, as they are among the shiest of Galapagos wildlife...
...offered to pay the cost of her hotel room in exchange for her pledging to Dole.) Certainly the amounts being spent are astounding for such an early contest. At a convention last month of the Florida Federation of Republican Women, Dole organizers replaced the customary canapes with shrimp, sliced lobster tails and strawberries dipped in white and dark chocolate to look as though dressed in tuxedoes, nesting beneath a cream-puff tree. For party favors, there were Godiva chocolates and Crabtree & Evelyn bath oil--not to mention a live band and a male ballroom dancer, available for waltzing...
...same time, fishermen have been plundering the waters of the marine sanctuary. In 1994 they pressured the government to allow three-month harvests of lobster, shark and sea cucumber--the latter two prized as delicacies in Asia. The shark fishery never opened, but environmentalists say many hammerheads and Galapagos sharks, as well as other species, are still being caught illegally for their fins...
When Mark Willes was an executive at General Mills, he ordered the company's Red Lobster restaurants to stop serving bread to diners because they filled up on it and ordered less food. It was therefore entirely in character when the relentlessly bottom line-oriented Willes, six weeks into his new job as CEO of Times Mirror, announced massive layoffs at the media giant's newspapers. In less than a week, Willes closed down New York Newsday, cutting about 750 jobs, and then announced an additional 1,000 job reductions company-wide, primarily at the flagship Los Angeles Times...
...sound as juicy as you can." Among his favorite come-ons (and one of the few suitable for publication): "Peek into the bathroom and see this cutie sitting on the toilet!" A subscriber who chose to download that photo would get a digitized picture of a 15-lb. lobster...