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Excited by this prospect, the suit says, Minuto quit the team at Tulane—forfeiting an athletic scholarship the Green Wave had supposedly promised him in the process...
...pain for long-term gain and cooperated with another closure, allowing the fish to recover to their currently high level. But cod is a special case, both because of their low numbers and the biological and environmental factors that will make recovery arduous. For fishermen like Mike Park, the prospect of a drastic reduction in quotas or a fishery closure spells doom. "I don't know what will happen," he says. "But I do know that any compromise to us translates into job losses and bankruptcies." The fishermen have every right to protest. But with supplies of their catch dwindling...
...George W. Bush's war on terror is losing Asian hearts and minds at a time when terrorism is an ever greater peril for the region. The sympathy earned by the U.S. after Sept. 11 is being wiped out by old grudges and new provocations, all fanned by the prospect of an impending war in Iraq. There is a disconnect here that is troubling: with every new incidence of terrorism, much of it directed against the U.S. and the West, citizens of Asia's supercities and rural communities seem to vent their anger back at Uncle...
...take several years before prices fall into a marketplace sweet spot, where buyers see the advantages of flat-screen TVs as worth the premium they command compared with conventional boob tubes. But competitive forces are already in play that could make that day come sooner rather than later. The prospect of hundreds of millions of TV viewers dumping their old sets and going flat has drawn the world's most innovative consumer electronics companies into the market, among them Sony of Japan and Samsung of South Korea. At the same time, manufacturers are pushing two different display technologies...
...China, the situation looks increasingly ominous. If North Korea has nukes, South Korea and possibly Japan will feel pressured to develop nuclear strike capabilities of their own to deter the North, say diplomats. That raises the prospect of China?which already shares borders with nuclear powers India, Pakistan and Russia?facing ancient adversaries armed with weapons of mass destruction on its eastern flank, too. Last month, during a regular meeting of senior foreign ministry diplomats at a luxury compound east of Beijing, a group of about fifteen department heads and other officials discussed a request from Washington that Beijing...