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...floor habitats that feed and protect schools of commercial fish. Factory trawlers scare up schools by dragging heavy chains over the sea bottom, uprooting aquatic plants and killing coral and shellfish. Migrating fish, such as salmon, are caught before they can spawn, thus killing their progeny as well. This one-two punch has contributed to the endangerment of many species, even those that are not pursued for their food value. The good news? Once the damaging practices end, depleted fisheries have shown a surprising capacity to revive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down on Over-Fishing | 1/24/1997 | See Source »

...meet went fantastic. Last year they beat us in the opening medley relay, but this year we went one-two in the medley relay and one-two-three-four in almost every event after," said Alpert...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, | Title: Aquamen Steamroll Past Columbia, Army | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...Alas, one imagines not. But even if Bill Clinton has not quite cracked John F. Kennedy's gold standard of presidential superstardom, his personality has overshadowed recent politics to a degree far surpassing any of his post-Kennedy predecessors'. With his palpable need to be loved, Clinton is surely the most psychologically compelling President we have had since the dark one-two punch of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Plus, he offers us the warmth and charisma of Ronald Reagan, the vigor, shall we say, of Kennedy and, somewhere in the mix, a dollop of Jimmy Carter's sanctimoniousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLINTON POP | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Former history teacher Poshard is keeping the Democratic tradition of the 19th alive by lobbying for his farm and coal-miner constituents--disability benefits for those with black-lung disease, research on "clean coal," water projects for agriculture--but he also wants federal spending curbed. It's a political one-two punch likely to keep the likeable Poshard in office another two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: ILLINOIS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...other end, the Saints possess the best one-two goaltending punch in the league in junior Clint Owen and senior Jon Bracco. It will be just Bracco for the first half of the season, however, since Owen has been suspended for an undisclosed violation of team rules...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Vermont Mounted Atop ECAC; Clarkson, Crimson Follow | 11/2/1996 | See Source »

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