Word: manning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Modern technology has given us the tools to extinguish entire fish populations, and because man is a can-do critter, that's what we're doing. After climbing steadily for the past 50 years, the worldwide catch of seafood has begun to drop. We're fishing out the oceans, at the same time that the need for seafood is soaring. Of the 6 billion of us on the planet, 1 billion rely on fish as their primary source of protein...
More and more nations are establishing marine reserves, where sea creatures of all sorts and sizes can mate and bear their young free from the menace of man. Just as important, funds are being found for enforcement of limits, restrictions and bans. Personnel are being hired and trained; boats and planes are being deployed to monitor compliance...
...huge and empty and emphatically inhospitable that it is difficult to picture its ever succumbing to the crush of civilization. But the same could have been said of the Grand Canyon in 1869, when John Wesley Powell braved murderous rapids and myriad other hazards to become the first man to navigate the Colorado River...
...David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, was TIME's 1996 Man of the Year
...point the way toward a cold cure though. Scientists at the University of Ghent, in Belgium, have found a protein called M2 that seems to be present in virtually every flu strain known to man. Using that knowledge, they have made a vaccine that they think could protect against all flus--old, new and those not yet in existence...