Word: northwest
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...past 100 years, the amount of food taken from the sea has multiplied more than tenfold, a rate in excess of global population growth. But the annual world catch-now about 60 million metric tons-cannot continue growing indefinitely. In fact, such sea staples as California sardines, Northwest Pacific salmon and Barents Sea cod -not to mention the beleaguered whale -are already rapidly dwindling. Contrary to the myth, Fisheries Biologist William Ricker recently warned, in a National Academy of Sciences report, the sea is not "a limitless reservoir of food energy...
...oysters and algae, Washington State's impoverished Lummi Indians are establishing one of the more promising U.S. aquafarms. The Oceanic Institute's founder, Taylor A. Pryor, whose researchers advise the Lummis, thinks similarly lucrative aquafarms can be set up all along the tidal areas of the U.S. Northwest, British Columbia and southern Alaska...
Williams then appointed her to a judgeship in Detroit. In 1954 she ran again for Congress and earned a measure of masculine appreciation by daily driving a car and campaign trailer through her predominantly blue-collar district on Detroit's northwest side. She won, despite primary opposition from the United Auto Workers union. Candidate Griffiths was helped by her husband, a former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, and by Williams. "Soapy and I were the happy extra-verts and ran around shaking hands," she recalls. "But my husband knew how to get things done...
...country itself was allowed few visitors, and journalists have been banned for years. On a recent trip along the Trucial Coast, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs attempted to cross Oman's ill-defined northwest border. "I would like to let you pass," said the tall, robed Omani guard, "so you could see the country. It is little changed from the days of the Prophet. Perhaps someone will do something about it soon...
...other spinoffs. Success in the Bay Area prompted attempts elsewhere: Dave Palma, 20, founder of the House of Pergamos there, is now trying to introduce the idea to New York City. There are now, by conservative estimate, more than 200 communes in California, and still others in the Pacific Northwest, Chicago, Detroit and other cities...