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...targets? Fish and water, says Alex Yearsley, a campaigner with London-based NGO Global Witness. Yearsley, who joined a panel to discuss the role of business in conflict at the World Economic Forum's Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town last week, says that "predatory looting of Africa's ocean assets" could destabilize already fragile societies. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa says there is "a lot of resentment among people who see themselves left with the scales and bones while all the fish flesh is taken away to Europe." Conflict fish, anyone? - By Simon Robinson Read All Over It has been...
Jenny Moran, 41, a sales executive in Ocean County, N.J., admits to being obsessed with her weight. But she was shocked when her 3 1/2-year-old daughter suddenly began weighing herself several times a day. "I never thought she was paying attention," Moran says ruefully...
...funny. One time we did an Ocean's Eleven sketch, and there was, like, eight of us sitting on a couch, and we were all laughing because not one of us looked anything like the person we were playing--Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Julia Roberts. Sometimes you just kind of make something up: O.K., I'm gonna pretend that Julia Roberts always has her mouth open. You just try to pick one thing and see if it flies...
...U.N.who is out of control, arrogant and a bully. Steve Linsey San Francisco Before the Flood Your story "where the waters are rising" described how the Maldives are affected by global warming [May 2]. The best way to save such low-lying areas from rising ocean levels is for the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and radically cut back on greenhouse-gas emissions. Why is it that the U.S., the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has both the money and the technology to reduce harmful emissions but lacks the political will to do so? It would...
...Sims players--is still much in evidence in Spore. The opening stages of the game, in which a player must eat or be eaten by other microbes, is a deliberate homage to Pac-Man. Later, after your amphibious creatures have acquired enough limbs to drag themselves from the ocean, they find one another on land and decide to mate--and a sexy, smooth jazz riff starts playing in the background. Millions of game years after that, you will find their descendants zipping across interstellar space in absurd 1950s-style UFOs...