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...much of it farmed in Thailand and China, has bankrupted fishermen along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Alaska fishermen, who catch only wild salmon at sea (fish farms are prohibited in the state), are being hammered by farm-raised salmon from Chile and Canada. "In 1988 I got $1 a pound for pink salmon. Now I get 7˘," says Scott McAllister, steering his boat past Alaska's Glacier Bay. He believes labels will help. "[People] will think it's cool to buy Alaska salmon from a wild and grizzly guy out here," he says. "And they will pay more for something...
BOSTON—As the nation’s top Democrats put on their rigorously on-message pageant in Boston this week, a wide variety of protesters gathered intermittently to pound out their own slogans in the environs of the FleetCenter. Some, scorning the Party faithful who gathered nearby, urged passersby to trust President Bush at all costs; others used the convention as an opportunity to launch a fiercer brand of anti-administration rhetoric than might have been allowed on the upbeat stage, lacing their words with righteous condemnation and the occasional expletive...
...Deva tipped over into exploitation and abuse of his athletes. Belu dismisses the charges by saying that training is "200% voluntary" and that he keeps "the door open for anyone who wants to leave." And even Comaneci's iconic status was challenged in a recent book by Dick Pound, a former vice president of the International Olympic Committee, who attributed her high score in Montreal to Soviet judges putting in the fix for Bloc athletes. Despite the troubles, Romania placed second in team finals at the 2003 world championships. In what was her first-ever big international contest, Ponor...
...sign of a yearning for independence. Calls for “democracy over bureaucracy” are as old as the Magna Carta, and they continue now in the form of the rising U.K. Independence Party, which, like the Tories, is quite happy with the Pound and doesn’t want to be bossed around by countries that use the Euro, thank you very much...
...around 9 a.m., U.S. aircraft dropped four 500-pound laser-guided bombs on buildings that the 1st ID says had been turned into insurgent positions. "There were three anti-Iraqi strong points that they were firing from," Stewart told TIME two hours after the air strike. "We destroyed the buildings...