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...National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is already completing a plan that would set federal fishing quotas for 39 shark species. It would also ban live finning -- the cruel practice of catching sharks, slicing off their fins and tossing the maimed creatures back into the ocean to die. Dried fins, which fetch up to $117 per kg ($53 per lb.) in Asian markets, are used to make shark-fin soup, a gelatinous delicacy that sells for as much as $50 a bowl in a fine Hong Kong restaurant...
...other hand, sharks, which evolved before the dinosaurs some 350 million years ago, are of enormous scientific interest and play a vital role in ocean ecology. Ranging from the 0.1-m (6-in.) Caribbean dwarf dog shark to the 18-m (60-ft.) whale shark -- the world's biggest fish -- they boast keen intelligence and some of the sharpest senses in the ocean. Many of the 350 species are capable of hearing a wriggling fish up to a mile away, and most can smell the merest trace of blood in the ocean. The shark's eyes work like night-vision...
...extract of its cartilage can serve as a temporary skin for burn victims, and shark corneas have been transplanted into human eyes. Because sharks rarely develop tumors, their immune systems are being studied for anticancer agents. In addition, by preying on sick and injured fish, sharks "help keep the ocean healthy," says Manire. Some biologists believe the rise in stingrays off the Florida panhandle may be a by-product of the shark's decline. Thus an ocean without sharks might be a safer place for humans, but it might not be a very nice place to swim...
...city is never presented as an alternative location among many. Sennett's arguments would have been strengthened, for example, had he considered the role of the wilderness as the accepted zone for today's spiritual quests. Surely the modern citydweller's solitary journey to the mountains or the ocean in search of meaning and fulfillment is in a fundamental way a pessimistic, escapist denial of the possibilities that human society offers...
...Mitterrand. The U.S. won permission to fly B-52 bombers out of bases in Britain and Spain on missions to the gulf. That will allow it to attack the Republican Guards with more of the giant planes than can be accommodated at bases in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The agreement was no surprise in the case of loyal ally Britain, but a very considerable surprise on the part of the formerly aloof government in Madrid. France agreed to allow the B-52s to fly over its territory. Being France, however, it attached conditions -- among...